"Paperless tickets" -- changes of the times

Author: Chen Qiuna

has sold about 20.87 million e-tickets by the end of June this year since the pilot of e-ticket service on Hainan high speed rail around the island was implemented on November 22, 2018. The system is running smoothly and orderly with good experience for passengers. On this basis, since July 27, 2019, the railway has successively increased the pilot application of e-ticket for four high-speed rail intercity railways, including Shanghai Nanjing, Chengdu Chongqing, Guangzhou Zhuhai (Zhanjiang West), Kunming Dali Lijiang. From November 20, 2019, the second batch of 48 stations in the Yangtze River Delta will bid farewell to paper tickets and enter the era of electronic tickets. With the advent of paperless era, our life is becoming more and more convenient and environmentally friendly. A mobile phone can go around the world and provide more convenient and efficient services for passengers

e-ticket, also known as "paperless" ticket, is a railway passenger transport contract in the form of electronic data. The implementation of e-ticket is conducive to the self-service and non-interference of real name ticket checking, which can effectively reduce the time for passengers to queue up to pick up and check tickets, and improve the speed of passengers entering and leaving the station. If the passenger uses the electronic payment and does not take out the reimbursement voucher, he / she can handle the refund or change the electronic ticket on the Internet, which not only greatly facilitates the passenger, but also reduces the pressure on the station window and saves a lot of manpower and material resources

nowadays, paper tickets are gradually leaving the stage of history. In recent years, the railway has launched 12306 ticket purchase platform, which is gradually promoting the development of the times in the process of continuous improvement and updating. From the previous window ticket sales to the automatic ticket sales to the current internet ticket purchase, a mobile phone can solve all the ticket problems. The implementation of e-ticket is the transmission of environmental protection concept, the performance of railway reform and the trend of the times

a small ticket witnessed the pace of railway reform. From paper ticket to ID card, from ID card to face, from face to electronic ticket, the railway has made a qualitative leap in serving passengers. Invisible tickets and convenient services are concrete actions for the railway to further promote the structural reform of passenger transport supply side, and also the positive practice for the railway to gradually realize the intellectualization, which highlights the service tenet of the railway for the people all the time.