Passengers on Swiss trains, buses and boats will have access to an electronic ticketing system in 2017, allowing them to be billed once a month with tailored prices, reports said.

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E-ticketing planned for Swiss transport

Passengers on Swiss trains, buses and boats will have access to an electronic ticketing system in 2017, allowing them to be billed once a month with tailored prices, reports said.

Published: 4 July 2011 10:27 CEST
E-ticketing planned for Swiss transport
SBB

The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) are planning the introduction of an electronic card with a microchip that will register travelling time and itineraries so that passengers will only be billed at the end the month, the Sunday edition of Le Matin newspaper said.

The initiative also aims at offering discounts and tailored tariffs and at reducing the use of paper tickets. A meeting of the public transport association, which includes over 100 companies, is scheduled to further discuss the plan next November, the paper said.

It is estimated that four to six percent of journeys are currently made without a valid ticket. With the e-ticketing system, SBB is aiming at lowering this percentage to two, for an expected additional revenue of 50 million francs ($59 million), project leader Santiago Garcia was quoted as saying by the paper.

The cost of the planned technical upgrades are expected to top 200 million francs ($235 million).
  

TRANSPORT

Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

Lines M3 and M4 of the Copenhagen Metro are back in service having reopened on Sunday, one day ahead of schedule.

Published: 26 February 2024 07:51 CET
Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

The two lines had been closed so that the Metro can run test operations before opening five new stations on the M4 line this summer.

The tests, which began on February 10th, are now done and the lines were running again as of Sunday evening, a day ahead of the original planned reopening on Monday February 26th.

“We are very pleased to be able to welcome our passengers on to our two lines M3 and M4,” head of operations with the Metro Søren Boysen said.

“The whole test procedure exceeded all expectations and went faster than expected and we can therefore get a head start on our reopening now,” he said.

Time set aside for potential repeat tests was not needed in the event, allowing the test closures to be completed ahead of time.

“Several of our many tests went better than expected and we have therefore not used all the time we needed for extra tests,” Boysen said.

The two lines serve around one million passengers every week, according to the Metro company.

READ ALSO: Copenhagen city government greenlights extension to Metro line

The new stops on the M4 line will be located south of central Copenhagen in the Valby and Sydhavn areas. The will have the names Haveholmen, Enghave Brygge, Sluseholmen, Mozarts Plads and København Syd (Copenhagen South).

The M3 and M4 lines, the newer sections of the Metro, opened in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

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