In new York preparing to abandon paper tickets for the trains Bashny.Net

Two lines of urban and suburban rail transport in new York- Metro-North and Long Island Railroad will become pioneers in the introduction of new environmental programs, city authorities, suggesting a gradual transition from paper tickets to electronic travel documents.



The leadership of the transport Department of new York said that the program, called the Metropolitan Transit Authority, is being implemented in cooperation with renowned developer of software for mobile devices – company Masabi.

Its staff has already submitted an application installed on popular mobile platform, which allows at any time to purchase tickets for the train are the above two lines, while avoiding the unnecessary hassle in frequent for the new York stations queues in which people often had fits of rage.

Now, the concept of the queue with the spread of a new way to purchase tickets will disappear, and as expected the initiators of the program, commuter rail will become more popular among people.

With regard to the environmental component, the authorities of new York plans to substantially reduce the consumption of paper consumed for the printing of tickets. Exact figures are not known, but based on the number of passengers, use for nature will be quite substantial.

In the future, in case of obtaining significant results of the experiment on the first two rows, expect the program to expand the brand to all urban and suburban rail lines of new York, and it is likely that to completely abandon the printed tickets. The last point is considered only in the long term, as for its implementation need to be sure that every passenger of the underground has a mobile device, whether smartphone, tablet, or smart watch, is able to perform the terminal function on the acquisition of travel documents.

But now, even without looking so far ahead, program Metropolitan Transit Authority seems an important step towards a sustainable development of the city.



Source: zeleneet.com