Paper railway tickets sold by a conductor have now almost universally been replaced by rail ticket booking software. \u00a0The methods for sale, verification of correct purchase before and during travel and when alighting, whilst monitoring passenger numbers and sales costs \u00a0have greatly changed.<\/p>\n
Nowadays passengers expect to be able to purchase their tickets any hour of the day, irrespective of whether they are near the train line or not. \u00a0They expect convenience. \u00a0Yet rail companies personnel \u00a0budgets are tight. \u00a0So many rail companies have adopted a high upfront cost approach by installing expensive hardware at multiple locations to sell tickets. \u00a0Unfortunately these machines also have an ongoing cost resulting from maintenance, repair, connectivity, servicing and replacement. \u00a0Sooner or later the railway looks to find a way to reduce this cost too.<\/p>\n
Other options including selling your tickets through stores and other shops that passengers may frequently visit. However, your company is not their key focus so your brand is lost amongst their many other products.<\/p>\n
Many larger railways have adopted electronic cards, similar to a bank card ranging from just an electronic strip where the balance is stored on a head office computer system, or with more advance electronics where the balance is stored on the card itself and then is updated to the head office computer system every now and then. \u00a0These cards have great benefits in that you can now track where the passenger boards\u00a0and alights, thus giving you detailed statistics on passenger numbers. \u00a0However, they also have huge costs as trains or stations or both need to be fitted with the necessary hardware to sell, verify and process passengers.<\/p>\n
And then there is the challenge with vending machine sales and electronic cards of end of life. \u00a0Typically the installation of all the related hardware occurred at one point in time. \u00a0It involved a massive upfront cost, significant deployment of contractors or personnel to install the machines, and costly multi-year contracts with vendors. \u00a0Then 5, 10, 15 years later they all must be reviewed again. \u00a0And the vendors now have a almost monopoly position able to lift their prices, because only they know how to fix your system.<\/p>\n
Well, there is now a new solution to this. \u00a0The humble smartphone, mobile phone, cell phone (call it what you will) and the internet allows you a new way forward. \u00a0Your customers now carry mobile phones and using AddTransit<\/a>\u00a0rail ticket booking software for your sales and reservations you will be able to implement a new network\u00a0wide ticketing solution\u00a0almost immediately. \u00a0Mobile apps allow the purchase of tickets and the verification of tickets. \u00a0Customers have the flexibility of 24×7 purchase and reservations no matter where they are. \u00a0And you have the location based reporting so that you can improve your routes and timetables whilst monitoring your costs.<\/p>\n Find\u00a0out more\u00a0about our Railway Ticket Booking Software<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>