Chiltern Railways has partnered with SilverRail Technologies for the development and pilot of a new approach to rail travel removing the need to buy and carry a ticket: “ticket free travel”.
This partnership between SilverRail and the train operator will allow passengers to use an app on their smartphones to detect commencement of travel and use Bluetooth to open ticket gates, automatically charging the customer the best price for their journey at the end of the day. In addition to the new way of paying for travel, the app will also offer personalised, real-time travel updates, commuter advice and multi-modal journey options.
The pilot will be conducted on Chiltern’s newly built route between Oxford Parkway, Bicester Village station, Bicester North and London Marylebone. Customers will use an app to travel which will also provide a history of journeys, prices and how the best value fare has been calculated.
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