This is how you can use the new Budapest GO app
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BudapestGO, the first integrated app of the Hungarian capital, assisting entirely urban transport is landing in the App Store today. BKK Centre for Budapest Transport makes this new app gradually available, therefore it can occur that certain customers could get access to the app at a later date. BudapestGO is not only a journey planner, anymore; as it is an app through which, among others, tickets and passes can be purchased and information on the actual traffic situation can be obtained.
After the last testing have been made, on 14 February 2022 (Monday), the BudapestGO is on the go in the well-known App Stores. BKK Centre for Budapest Transport presented the new development on 7 February. Before it was going live, the company gave a chance to the staff of the press to test the app and inform future users about it. On the press conference, Dr. Katalin Walter, BKK’s CEO made the following statement: “BudapestGO is an important milestone in the transformation of transport provided in the Hungarian capital, in the improvement of customer experience and in the digitalisation alike.”
What services are added to BudapestGO, compared to the former FUTÁR app?
The renewed BKK app is released with several new features, as a consequence of which, it has moved on to a higher level. While its predecessor was simply a traditional journey planner; BudapestGO is much more than that. Up to this point, users wishing to plan their journey(s) were required to use a separate journey planner app (FUTÁR), use another app (Mobile ticket apps) to purchase a pass and another app (BKK Info) to be informed on the actual travel-related information.
The fragmentation of apps is already over. The new app is such an integrated, digital service, with which journey planning, ticket purchase and information notification of the actual traffic-related situations are possible on one interface.
In this app, ticket- and pass purchase is already available. The digital single ticket much-awaited by passengers is already available and from March even the 30-minute and 90-minute time-based tickets will be among the digital products.
Not only for Budapest’s public transport lines, but also for regional buses and local public transport lines of every major urban settlement in Hungary will passengers be able to purchase tickets, passes via the app.
The BudapestGO app allows BKK’s customers to automatically purchase their monthly pass each month on a continuous basis, similarly to a subscription-based service. If they wish to unsubscribe from this service, they can do it with one click.