Half of the travelers in the international trains to Brussels and Paris is now using a smartphone containing a digital card, reports NS International. Travelers do this no longer print out a ticket if they purchased via the internet, but have to check to see the barcode on their mobile phone. This system has been introduced in February. In NS International is the associated app downloaded more than a hundred thousand times. Soon, travelers can also international trains to Germany use this system.
NS International works with individual tickets and e-tickets. This ticket is separate from NS Passengers, which works with the smart card. According to the NS is the introduction of the mobile ticket for domestic travel a lot more complicated and will not take place in the short term.
Trans Link Systems (TLS), the provider of the smart card, is engaged to the back office to build a cloud-based platform. In time, the current NFC smart card replaced by a “dumb” card or another way to check in and out.
At the stations are already loopholes that both NFC and 2D barcodes can read, but upgrades to the equipment in buses and trams are much more expensive. The depreciation of the equipment will be gradual.
TLS and the transport company GVB Amsterdam test with Vodafone a solution to integrate the smart card into the Vodafone Wallet for the SIM-based NFC services. To do a hundred travelers with the pilot.
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