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I don't live in Paris anymore but the last time I went you could use your phone very easily to buy and use tickets. The paper thing is a legacy super thing as o
by lta 3y ago
I don't live in Paris anymore but the last time I went you could use your phone very easily to buy and use tickets. The paper thing is a legacy super thing as older people are not familiar with it, bit all means of buying transport have a digital option afaict
- nerdbert 3y agoI'd say "easy" is an overstatement. You have to install an app and master their weird terminology (to get a reasonable price you buy a "carnet" of 10 tickets). And of course it still only works with Android. Easy would be following what's being done in major transit systems all over the world: Let people immediately pay for rides without installing or thinking about anything, by tapping their phone on the turnstile. And for a bonus, adopt TfL's fare capping so people don't have to try to game the various discount options.
- Nextgrid 3y agoTickets are a relic of the past as a workaround because managing the (back-then exclusively physical) money at each fare collection point was impractical. Nowadays money is no longer physical for the vast majority of users (instead cards/phones are used), so there is no need for tickets anymore as managing an EMV transaction is just as easy as some internal ticketing operation (in both cases you'd need a network-connected computer).