Beginning in October, residents of the North German city of Munster will be able to buy their bus and train tickets via mobile phone. This makes Munster the twelfth participant in the nationwide pilot project. The nationally standardized system was developed by member firms and groups of the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) and Siemens IT Solutions and Services, DVB LogPay and the Fraunhofer-Institut IVI Dresden.

Siemens supplied and now operates the IT solution. The pilot has been under way since the end of April 2007 in Chemnitz, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Essen, Hamburg, Lubeck, Nuremberg, Oberlausitz Ulm, Vogtland and Wuppertal - with a total of some 30,000 tickets via mobile phones sold to date.

One of a kind: Stadtwerke Munster (public services) also offers tickets in sets of 4 for purchase via mobile phone. Consumers buying these tickets by phone pay 20 euro-cents less than the cash price on city buses.
In addition to developing the IT solution together with its subsidiary Hansecom and the Fraunhofer-Institut IVI Dresden, Siemens IT Solutions and Services implemented and now operates it.

Posted to the site on 28th September 2007

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