Mobile Please!! Instead of TICKET PLEASE

October 24, 2006 – 4:21 pm

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Tickets please!! In Bangladesh we are still familiar with this sound of the railway ticket checker. However, in developed countries the whole process is done by computers. Now the computers will be removed by mobile phones.

UK passengers would be able to buy tickets using their mobile phones. Chiltern Railways, a British railway company, has developed this new system that would send the mobile phone users a bar code via text messages, which would be scanned at the rail station ticket counter. Passengers will have to buy the tickets 24 hours before travel. The Silicon.com report says that Chiltern will first run a three month trial on their E-day tickets for the Birmingham-London route. Passengers using the E-day ticket system would be able to print their tickets at home. Chiltern Railways is working with YourRail, a mobile-ticketing technology company and ts.com, an internet retail company.

Chiltern Railways’ commercial director, Neil Micklethwaite said that mobile ticketing would mean easy purchases, anywhere, anytime. The most important feature of mobile ticketing is that it is simple and convenient.

On the other hand, Atos Origin has developed another mobile ticketing system called AVANTIX Mobile.

According to the report published in WebWire:

Atos Origin, a leading IT services company, today announced that AVANTIX Mobile has been implemented across Northern; London and South Eastern Railways; First TransPennine Express; Southern and Arriva Trains Wales. The delivery of over 1,000 devices at more than 50 locations was completed less than eight months after the initial contract was awarded. The machines are now in revenue-earning service with all the participating train operators. This initial project is now being followed by the rollout of a further 560 units for three more train operators.

Looks like from now on British passengers who fail to buy the tickets would hear the ticket checker saying: “YOUR MOBILE PLEASE.”

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