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![]() German railway introduces virtual tickets
24/08/2006 - 16:24:41 - breakingnews.ie Germany’s national railway today launched a service that will allow passengers to buy virtual tickets using their internet-capable mobile phones. Customers will receive a multimedia message on their mobile phones that will be read by new scanners and serve as a ticket, railway operator Deutsche Bahn said. Booking via mobile phone is available until 10 minutes before a train’s departure, the company said. Customers will have to register for the service online before buying their first mobile phone ticket. Deutsche Bahn board member Friedrich Rausch said he expected that the new system will bring the company more passengers, and that it hopefully will appeal to young people and businesspeople. The railway operator said all train ticket collectors should be equipped with the new scanners by mid-September. |
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![]() IE are looking at print on demand tickets i.e. you use the receipt email you get from the booking as the ticket, in theory it could be implemented instantly once you had photo id to verify you are the ticket holder which in turn means the ticket wasn't copied
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![]() I remember seeing a news piece a few weeks ago about cinema tickets being sent to people as barcode on their phone. They just had their phones scanned as they were going in to the cinema. I'm assuming that is the kind of system they are looking at in Germany.
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![]() The Swiss tried this a while back, the message you get has some kind of code which can be verfied
The beauty of the print it yourself is the ticket checker can be handed a sheet of paper listing the numbers before departure, no need for complex electronic toys |
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Also, when it was checked by the guard, the details were entered into a PDA. I assume that this was able to perform some cross validation between my print out and the IT systems. |
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![]() What if you booked tickets under someone elses credit card tho?
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![]() In Portugal (poorest country in the EU prior to the recent Eastern accession states), you can get an Intercity reservation up to 15 minutes prior to departure on any Intercity service, from any ATM if you have a local bank account. This has been available for several years. The Portuguese ATM system (Multibanco) is a single system, and not fragmented by individual bank ownership, and its coverage is extremely comprehensive, so the facility is really useful.
If the poor backward Portuguese (!!) can do it, why can't we? |
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