A new paperless ticketing system that works through the pursuit of passenger trips via GPS is tested on railways in Great Britain to make the purchase of tickets “more convenient, accessible and flexible” as well as the waste caused by ticket.
From September 1st in the East Midlands line between Leicester, Derby and Nottingham and in Yorkshire between Harrogate, Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster and Barnsley at the end of the month, the pilot program should include up to 4,000 participants.
To participate, passengers are invited to register on websites of the train operators. According to Oli Cox, head of the commercial strategy and business planning at East Midlands Railway, over 500 people are registered at the time of writing.
The system is based on bar codes, which were exhibited by the participants for scanning in an app when using ticket goals. Your trips will then be followed on your phone with GPS location services (global positioning system). Payment for rail trips then takes place at the end of each day.
More than 200 customers have registered for our new payment, while they are opened within 10 days of registration.
The attempt will take place between Leicester, Derby and Nottingham, whereby the GPS-based technology is used to pursue travel and automatically calculate the best value.
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– East Midlands Railway (EMR) (@Eastmidrailway) June 19, 2025
Paper maps are no longer necessary as part of the program, which claims to be more modern, financially advantageous for passengers and more time, with the need to plan and buy trips in advance. Railway Minister Lord Peter Hendy welcomed the “upgrade” as “long overdue” and said it would bring the British railways “to the 21st century”.
He explained that the overhaul “Passenger experience focuses on our decision -making” and that the move would be a step towards “modernization of tariffs and ticketing and easier and easier for people to choose the train”.
The program is also about right and order. By persecution of travel, the system reduces the authorities, including the practice, which is known as “Doughuting”, in which the passengers only buy tickets for the start and end of their trip to go through ticket barriers and did not pay a hole in the middle of their actual travel freewire.
Good news! We do things fairer for our fare customers by introducing several new penalty routes to combat fare failures.
These are introduced according to the updates of our criminal price cheman, which is part of the ongoing work with our partners to develop ticketing …
– East Midlands Railway (EMR) (@eastmidrailway) August 21, 2025
In Great Britain, the collective bargaining, which was recently in Great Britain due to the illegal use of criminal courts to pursue cases in Great Britain, leads losses of up to EUR 460 million per year, in which the railway company received more than 14 billion euros in subsidies in 2024, of which telegraphs over three percent of the subsidies are saved by attacks by actors could be.
Already tested in Switzerland and in Denmark and in Scotland, where a TAP & wage process was introduced in January and in which the top prices for Scotrail have been abolished, the new pilot is framed by some as part of a transport strategy for the north of the country.
Ticketless services have been available for Transport for London Services for a long time, and Hendy said in February 2025 that it is “only correct that we now want to expand the contactless ticketing in other big cities in the north to ensure that you can use the economic advantages, have easier ticketing offers and have passengers who have a better experience.”
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