One of the issues in the forthcoming reform of #RailTicketing #SDBTR in the EU: can passengers bundle tickets together themselves, or would a ticket reseller have to do it? Booking horizons are a mess, so let passengers bundle themselves? Explained 👇 jonworth.eu/bundling-up-...

Bundling up tickets and bookin...
Bundling up tickets and booking horizons: railways are making a problem for themselves

Last summer I faced a peculiar conundrum: the train I wanted to take from Trondheim to Oslo in Norway was already sold out before tickets for the train from Boden in Sweden to Narvik in Norway, an earlier leg of my trip, were even available for sale. The reason? Different

Jon Worth

One of the issues in the forthcoming reform of #RailTicketing #SDBTR in the EU: can passengers bundle tickets together themselves, or would a ticket reseller have to do it?

Booking horizons - basically how far ahead of the trip a ticket can be bought - are a major barrier to making the latter approach work

So let passengers bundle themselves?

Explained 👇
https://jonworth.eu/bundling-up-tickets-and-booking-horizons-railways-are-making-a-problem-for-themselves/

Bundling up tickets and booking horizons: railways are making a problem for themselves

Last summer I faced a peculiar conundrum: the train I wanted to take from Trondheim to Oslo in Norway was already sold out before tickets for the train from Boden in Sweden to Narvik in Norway, an earlier leg of my trip, were even available for sale. The reason? Different

Jon Worth