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 ear...

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?

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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 […]

Irregular Rail Passengers Priority is the simplest possible procedure to book, and a reasonable enough price Regular National Rail Passengers Might have passes and reduction cards they want to use, won't pay more for convenience Rail Companies Want as little to change as possible, lowest costs possible

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 […]

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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 p...

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
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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
jonworth.eu/how-to-fix-railway-ticke...

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📢Press Release📢 | Germany: Market Dominant Rail Ticket Vendors Must Finally Be Opened Up – To Ensure Multichannel Sale

#Germany #Ticketing #SDBTR #DE #DB

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📢 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 📢 | New #Eurobarometer Survey Shows What is Missing in EU Rail #Ticketing

⚠️ Almost 6 out of 10 EU citizens who never or rarely combine #rail journeys with different operators gave startling reasons that call for urgent legislative action on ticketing.

#sdbtr #eu #modalshift