A new pay-as-you-go rail ticketing system which tracks passengers locations as they travel is to be trialled in England for the first time.<\/p>\n
The location-tracking digital ticketing trial starts on East Midlands Railway between Leicester, Derby and Nottingham on Monday, September 1.<\/p>\n
Further tests will take place in Yorkshire from the end of September.<\/p>\n
Under the scheme, passengers will be able to check in and out of rail journeys using an app on their phone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The app will track journeys using the global positioning system (GPS) and then passengers will be automatically charged at the end of the day.<\/p>\n
When passing through ticket barriers, passengers will have to scan a unique bar code which appears on the app.<\/p>\n
The new tech, which is already being tested in Switzerland, Denmark and Scotland, is designed to replace the need for paper tickets and mobile tickets which use a QR code.<\/p>\n
Up to 4,000 people will be able to take part in the trials by signing up on train operators\u2019 websites.<\/p>\n
Ministers hope the trial will help to save passengers both money and time while travelling on the rail network.<\/p>\n
Rail minister Lord Peter Hendy said: \u201cThe railway ticketing system is far too complicated and long overdue an upgrade to bring it into the 21st century.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough these trials we\u2019re doing just that, and making buying tickets more convenient, more accessible and more flexible.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy putting passenger experience at the heart of our decision-making we\u2019re modernising fares and ticketing and making it simpler and easier for people to choose rail.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oli Cox, head of commercial strategy and business planning at East Midlands Railway, said \u201cmore than 500 people\u201d had already registered an interest in taking part in the trial.<\/p>\n
From the end of September, the trial will be extended to Northern Rail services between Harrogate, Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster and Barnsley.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new pay-as-you-go rail ticketing system which tracks passengers locations as they travel is to be trialled in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16,1259,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-388461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-uk-news","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115126948556645785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}