Transportation in Lund

We are embracing not having a car (for me, for the first time since I was 16!).

Interactive Europe-wide train schedules in English from DeutschBahn.

Helpful Europe-wide train & ferry schedules from Seat 61.

National SJ Swedish rail site in English. Tickets are released 90 days in advance and get more expensive the closer to departure date. Cheaper Last Minute (Sista minuten) tickets can be bought through SJ.se (but apparently only for students, under 26 or pensioners), or by auction via Tradera.se. Night trains are also much cheaper (i.e., Lund to Stockholm, 5 days in advance day train, 1100 SEK each way; about 550 for a sleeper car on the night train).

The regional train system is Oresundstag (English page here). This gets you around Southern Sweden (Malmö, Lund) as well as Cophenhagen (including the CPH airport, "Kastrup" station). This line runs from Helsingor south to Copenhagen in Denmark, across the bridge to Malmo and Lund. After Lund, the lines split into three: Landskrona/Helsingborg/Bastad/Goteberg, Vaxjo/Kalmar, and Kristianstad/Karlskrona.

Skanetrafiken runs the city and regional buses in southern Sweden, and somehow, some regional trains as well. (English site here). They offer an "Around the Sound" ticket for 2 days of travel on all train & bus & metro lines in Cophenhagen & Skane for SEK 249. You have to cross the Oresund bridge in 1 direction and the Helsingor/Helsingborg ferry in the other (they are supposed to cross off or punch out on the ticket when you cross the bridge or ferry).

They recommend the "Jojo Travelcard" if you will travel 8-10 days out of the month (unlimited travel for 30 days, around 2000 SEK/month), or else the "Jojo discount card" which you prepay in any amount, register so you can cancel it & get a refund if it's lost or stolen, and gets you 20% off the fares.

Note that if you're traveling with two people, you should get a "duo/family" ticket rather than paying for 2 adults, it will be cheaper.

Lund has a car sharing program (similar to Zipcar, etc. in the US). The website (in Swedish) is here. Agneta, the helpful woman whom I emailed, said:

• To become a member, you pay a deposit of 2000 SEK, which you get back when you leave.
  
• The annual fee (due Oct 1, covers the year starting on that date) is 500 SEK if you do some volunteer work- otherwise, 1400 SEK/year.
  
• You pay 12.50/hour, c 2kr/km depending on what care you use.
  
• There are 12-14 cars parked around the city.
• Gas is about 13 SEK/L (about $7/gallon).

Avis and Hertz also have rental car agencies in Lund, behind the train station. Prices I saw were around $120/day with unlimited km's.