What does “6 Waben” mean on a German train ticket?

Question

I have have a train ticket from Germany:> von [City Name] > nach **6 Waben**What does *6 Waben* mean? I found that it means *6 honeycomb,* but this does not make much sense to me in context.

Answer 1

Hello,

Waben is standing for travel zones and 6 is the amount of the zones, so 6 different zones.