New innovation of Budapest’s transport company making our life easier
Change language:
BKK Centre for Budapest Transport is testing a new solution to make it easier and more convenient for customers using digital tickets to board. The company will allow passengers to validate products purchased with BudapestGO after boarding trams 4 and 6 with stickers placed in the passenger compartment.
BudapestGO has become a popular travel application for the capital’s residents, as the app effectively helps to buy tickets and passes quickly, provides automatic pass renewal, and supports route planning, even for cyclists. It’s no wonder that in four months, more than one million people have already used BudapestGO. Thanks to the app, more and more people are buying digital tickets and passes, which need to be validated by scanning the code before boarding the vehicles.
BKK’s goal is to make the use of tickets even easier and more convenient, taking into account customer feedback. Therefore, as of 6 July, the company will make it possible, as a test, to validate digitally purchased occasional tickets on lines 4 and 6 by scanning the stickers displayed in the vehicle’s passenger compartment, just like paper tickets need to be validated on board.
The way to use digital tickets and passes is different
An important difference is that the use of digital single tickets, daily travelcards and passes is different. Only digital single tickets and time-based tickets need to be validated upon boarding by scanning the exterior code sticker by the door of buses, trams, trolleybuses, cogwheel and suburban railway trains. Travelcards and passes are valid from the starting time indicated at the time of purchase, the validation sticker needs to be scanned only on bus lines with front-door boarding and at the metro station entrances if control staff, the passenger coordinators, are on duty.
Why do I need to scan the code sticker?
Scanning the code sticker displays an animated image on the user’s phone, which changes periodically. This allows the passenger coordinator or driver to check the validity of the ticket or pass. Since trams do not have a front-door boarding system or access control staff at the entrance, only the digital single tickets and time-based tickets are validated by scanning the code sticker.
The validation stickers will also be displayed in the passenger compartments of trams 4 and 6
Validation stickers will be available in the passenger compartment of trams serving the Grand Boulevard on the right-hand side of the doors and by the driver’s cabin, making it possible to validate digital mobile tickets conveniently on board. Single tickets must be validated immediately after boarding, whether paper or digital.
As the Siemens Combino-type trams operating on lines 4 and 6 are also diverted to tram line 1 at weekends and on non-school days, BKK customers will be able to see the validation stickers there as well. During the test period, mobile ticket validation will also be available on tram line 1.
