Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Rome: bus and metro tickets will be purchased by SMS

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From next month, who visit Rome you can buy bus tickets, metro or tram easily, within the same means of transport. The Italian capital will put in metro carriages and inside the buses and trams, special phone numbers, to which passengers can send an SMS, by purchasing the ticket.

Immediately, the client receives a reply message with a code, which identifies the note that was just purchased. When the reviewer questioning the passenger on the ticket, he will only have to show the code on the display of the phone, explains the Less A Car.

The ticket can be purchased by those who have a more basic mobile phone or smartphone.

The system already exists in other Italian cities â€" such as Florence, Padua, Vicenza and Genoa â€" and his success led him to Rome and other Italian cities. In addition to easy and fast, the system helps to save on consumption of public transport tickets.

"From January you can buy bus tickets, metro and tram with the smartphone, cellphone or mobile phone who visit us", explained Ignazio Marino, mayor of Rome.

"It would be a great idea, maybe, for the cities more like tourist Lisbon Portuguese", concludes the aggregator Less A Car.

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