You can travel with electronic tickets in Budapest in a year
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Kalef Newsletter learned a lot of things from BKK (Budapest Transport Center) on last week’s Car-Free Day. Perhaps, one of them the most interesting was that traveling with electronic tickets was within reach, velvet.hu wrote.
BKK said the following at the weekend:
The full introduction is expected by the end of 2017.
The devices are already being installed at the stations and in the vehicles a year in advance.
It will be possible that a student card or a bank card can function as a pass.
It is planned in long terms that the service can be used by phone; the system will be built that it will allow it originally.
BKK machines have already been prepared for this, only smaller assemblies must be performed and the software must be updated.
It will be possible to use the services of BKK without purchase, only by possessing a bank card. You just simply had to touch the bank card to the device and it deducts the cost of the trip.
There will be opportunity to check the travel history on the Internet and at the BKK machines, that is what kind of lines we used and when.
600 inspectors are expected to travel around the city after the introduction.
First it will be just a piece of plastic
The electronic ticket system will be introduced in several phases, and the peculiarities of the introduction explain that actually any piece of plastic could be electronic pass for half a year.
At the end of this year, BKK employees get their cards, then the people over 65 years in the spring of 2016. Two groups whose members have been already able to travel for free on public transport. In fact, the situation will be similar for a while as for the phonograph, when the technology, with which sound could be recorded, had existed for 20 years, but it was not possible to play it back.