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The UK government is planning to trial GPS mobile ticketing at certain rail stations. A spokesperson told Mobility Payments the project is not a signal that transport officials are backing off of open-loop payments in any way.
Cumulative trips for Denmark’s (GPS-enabled) “Rejsekort as an app” service climbed from 5 million as of last December to 13.3 million as of last week.
• Department for Transport
• Transport for London
• ScotRail
While mobile ticketing using GPS technology is advancing in such countries as Denmark, Switzerland and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in Western Europe, it hasn’t yet been rolled out in the UK.
British transport authorities and operators have instead backed open-loop payments and pay-as-you-go ticketing for pretty much all transport modes, including–most recently–ticketing for intercity and commuter rail.