E-ticket
An electronic ticket , or e-ticket for short , is a ticket that is used as an alternative to paper tickets. According to an estimate by the International Air Transport Association in December 2007, 92 percent of all flight tickets issued worldwide were e-tickets.
There are basically two types of e-tickets. The most widespread are e-tickets, which serve as a paperless replacement for a travel or entry ticket , but are not a travel or entry ticket in the actual sense, but rather a booking confirmation. When purchasing an e-ticket, the customer's identity and (travel) data are registered for them. When redeeming the booking confirmation, he has to prove his identity and then receives the actual ticket, the service or - in the case of a flight booking - the boarding pass . In contrast, real e-tickets are full-value tickets.
E-tickets in public transport
In public transport now real e-tickets are used (see eTicket Germany ). The ticket only exists here as a data record that is encrypted and stored on a chip card . In order to check the authenticity of such an e-ticket, the inspector needs an electronic reading device with a security module (Secure Application Module, SAM) that can decrypt the e-ticket.
E-tickets are largely forgery-proof. In the variant in which the e-ticket is exchanged for a paper ticket, a check takes place in the publisher's database. In the case of a real e-ticket, on the other hand, electronic encryption makes forgery more difficult.
There is a Germany-wide standard for e-tickets in public transport: the VDV core application .
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E-tickets are most widespread in air traffic , but can also be found in all other areas of public transport and as admission tickets to trade fairs and other major events.
Electronically encrypted e-tickets are currently available in Germany in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr , Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg , Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund , KreisVerkehr Schwäbisch Hall , Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund , Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg , Stadtwerke Augsburg and Stadtwerke Augsburg used in the Allianz Arena .
Benefits of the e-ticket
By digitally recording the data, these can also be changed flexibly. Time-critical bookings can also be accelerated through electronic processing. Last-minute bookings can easily be made.
In the area of public transport, the ticket no longer has to be taken from the machine and then validated in the respective means of transport. Ticket refunds can also be booked back directly to the bank account with which the passenger purchased the e-ticket.
Cons of the e-ticket
The electronic ticket can sometimes be illegible. And customers can subsequently be accused, despite provable ticket purchases, that everything was not in order and that debt collection companies are charged with making substantial additional payments.
Introduction to Germany
In January 2017 it was reported that Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt was planning a digital ticket to network bus and train services in all cities and, in the longer term, to book parking spaces and car sharing offers.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Paper tickets in air traffic are not dying out completely. In: heise.de
- ↑ Passenger threatened with court for using screenshot of e-ticket , The Guardian, June 29, 2019, retrieved on the same date
- ↑ E-Ticket: Germany is abolishing paper tickets. In: Golem.de . January 6, 2017, accessed March 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Local public transport: Dobrindt is planning digital tickets for all cities. In: The time. January 6, 2017, accessed January 6, 2017 .