a Ticket from a machine on the Uetliberg solve, with the Tram across Zurich curves, and in the evening a cruise on the lake of Zurich: in Zurich, Tariff and zone jungle view, it needs almost a PhD in computer science. If the cable car in Adliswil, post cars, Stadtbus Winterthur, or the night-time surcharge. Because it’s all so complicated, has a new feature in the App, the Zurich transport Association (ZVV), a great success. Check-in-Ticket is the name of this. It is calculated thanks to the GPS function of the mobile phones is always the right price. And the customer never pays more than for a day ticket.
And so it goes: At the bus stop or on the railway platform will be wiped out in the ZVV-Ticket-App, the blue start button with the Finger to the right. Important: You have to have to be solved to check in before Boarding – just like a SBB E-Ticket prior to departure, otherwise there will be problems with the controller. The Swiss pass, as well as a means of payment, must be associated with the App.
The App registers thanks to GPS, the station and recorded on the basis of the location services and timetable data the distance driven. When Exiting the switch will be wiped back to the left. Who can forget the, is remembered by the App after a quarter of an hour. The phone noted in the rule, if you go on foot, instead of driving with the Tram or Bus.
The App will be charged, even the night-five Liber
Later, other trips on any means of public transport in the Association area and in the whole of Switzerland can come to that. Will be settled on the next day about the behind payment. Who can forget late at night, to check out will be charged in the worst case, with a day ticket. The night of five-franc pieces on the weekend will automatically be added to this.
check-in: The E-Ticket of the ZVV only be charged for the actual distance traveled. Photo: PD
the owner of the city of Zurich subscriptions to drive to Stäfa, he must pay only from the border of the city. In the case of spontaneous addition, the App charged trips instead of the cheaper day ticket tickets. The Zurich System is approved by the data protector. The traffic data will be retained by the ZVV for a year, so the customer can respond to service complaints due to incorrect billing.
A peculiarity of the Zurich transport network, the App is not checked, the day tickets that are valid for 24 hours – for example, from 16 o’clock to 16 o’clock. The App expects, as well as the SBB, in calendar days. As compensation, the calendar-day ticket is on the App is 10 percent cheaper than the ZVV-24-hours-card. The reason for this peculiarity: The Check-in System should be from the beginning, with the rest of the tariff system in Switzerland compatible.
Since April of last year, the “Check-in” function in the existing ZVV Ticket is unlocked in-App. A market test lasts until the end of the year, starting in 2020 the System is to be introduced, definitely. The Numbers are according to the ZVV-media speaker Caspar Frey encouraging: 266’000 customers have downloaded the ZVV App, almost every Tenth has enabled the Check-in System. Regularly it is used by 7250 users. This complete 54’000 trips per month, as media spokesman, Frey says. The proportion of the Check-in Tickets in the total number of all the ZVV-Ticket App Tickets sold already amounts to almost 20 percent.
The ticket vending machines remain – for the time being
the downside of this development: in 2016, were for the first time, more Tickets digital is sold as a on the switch. Sales channel number one remains but with a large distance of the ticket machine, even if this loses the constant sales of the shares. In 2013, 67 percent of all the Tickets from the vending machine, in 2017, there were still only 59. The E-Tickets have increased in the same period, from 7 to almost 22 percent.
also, a removal of the ticket machines is now Threatening to the switches? Caspar Frey, from the ZVV says: “at The Moment, neither a removal nor an Expansion of the ZVV vending machine inventory is planned.”
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According to the ZVV-the speaker has proven to be the Check-in function so far. The System according to operate passenger survey “very easy”. A prerequisite for the rapid spread of the fact that many mobile phone owners a flat rate-have subscription and always and everywhere access to the Internet. The Check-in System run in a stable way, and only in individual cases, the ticket would have to be billing by the customer service subsequently corrected. For example, the App does not work in the new underground through station at the main train station, right, because the GPS reception for the location is sufficient.
At the end there should be an agreement
The ZVV, with its App on the provider Lezzgo to the BLS and, therefore, has the nose in front. The SBB and moved in last October, with the Easy-Ride your technology partner Fairtiq. Also the SBB perform until the end of 2019, a market test on your Preview App. With Preview the SBB test new features with the aim of integrating them later in the well-known red SBB-Mobile-App. Currently, the SBB count 6000 active Easy-to-Ride users, the book 18’000 trips per month.
the SBB, ZVV, and other transport operators to deliver, so with different partners in a race to the E-Ticket of the future. “Competition is good,” said AFS Director Franz Kagerbauer on the occasion of the launch, “as long as at the end of the price machine in the Background is the same.” Is probable that BLS, SBB, ZVV, and other transport associations in the test phase, to a Central prize machine. Important for the customer: The Ticket from Lufingen to the Lötschental valley costs on all the Apps all the same. Today, both systems of the handling are similar to comfortably.
Later, perhaps even an Alternative for GA
Also for the public TRANSPORT industry Association, CH-Direct SBB spokesman Stephan Wehrle, who also coordinates the communication of the industry’s projects, believes in the future of Easy-to-Ride, or Check-in-Ticket: “The technology will prevail, because it is cheap and easy to develop. Up to 2016, SBB put on a Bibo System – be in, be out. Sensors in the train doors, a register in this System, if someone – or drop out of, as now, the ski lift. However, due to the expensive installations in every car.
the advantages of The Geotracking system with the mobile phone are obvious. About Updates, the technology can continuously adjust. As a next step, the wiping gesture when Exiting is to be eliminated. Finally, a modern Smartphone is registered any movement. And anyone who is not sure in advance that he continues to be GA, solves his Tickets in the future better than the Easy Ride. As in the days of the card, the App might be, if the SBB want to the maximum of the cost for a one-year GA. However, these functions are still in the future.
(Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 25.02.2019, 22:53 PM
