I’ve written a reaction to T&E‘s report on ticketing problems for iPaper https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/no-fly-european-holidays-easy-book-why-not-4370168
We know the scale of the problem now. The ball is in the Commission‘s court to fix it now! #CrossBorderRail #ticketing #sdbtr
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
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?
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
Basically the ticketing conundrum looks like this
The forthcoming EU Regulation has to provide an outcome railway companies can live with, a solution simple enough for irregular passengers to tempt them to take the train, and benefits too for regular (national) rail users
This is actually possible - if the Commission is clear headed enough about it
We know there is a problem with rail ticketing in the EU - anyone who has ever tried to book trains cross-border has encountered the issues. If you can find the trains you want, you often cannot get prices for the tickets. And even if you can get prices, you
The European Commission will propose the Single Digital Booking and Ticketing Regulation (#SDBTR) this spring
We know WHY rail ticketing in the EU needs to be fixed
Here I explain the building blocks HOW to do it
https://jonworth.eu/how-to-fix-railway-ticketing-in-the-eu/
We know there is a problem with rail ticketing in the EU - anyone who has ever tried to book trains cross-border has encountered the issues. If you can find the trains you want, you often cannot get prices for the tickets. And even if you can get prices, you
Jon Worth
Jon Worth