Did you know that 30 percent of payments for parking in Tallinn, Estonia are made using a mobile phone over SMS? Or that you can buy a single-trip tram ticket using SMS in Finland? Do you think it would work elsewhere?
Did you know that 30 percent of payments for parking in Tallinn, Estonia are made using a mobile phone over SMS? Or that you can buy a single-trip tram ticket using SMS in Finland? Do you think it would work elsewhere?
I think the “SMS ticket” was the wisest thing Helsinki city transportation dept. adopted in the last few years. It has announced that it will renew the current ticket system (cards and readers, not related to the sms therefore) because it is not a standard in the market and it is quite pricey – and it was only taken into use about 1-2 years ago.
The SMS ticketing isn’t that much affected by the change in my opinion as the ticket/message is shown to a person, in case the ticket is checked, not a machine.