Mumbai turns to mobile ticketing app to travel in trains

Mumbai | Wednesday | 20th February, 2019

Summary:

2 per cent: Share of mobile ticketing as against total salesDecember 2014: Mobile ticketing was first launched45,750: Average sale of tickets using mobile UTS app in Feb Sources said that the highest was seen on February 9 when 53,000 tickets were purchased using this mobile ticketing app. There has been an increase of over 3.5 times in the number of commuters, who use the mobile ticketing system, as compared to last year. In 2016-17, 1,700 tickets were sold on the mobile UTS app that has been devised by the Centre for Railway Information Systems. Data reveals that mobile ticketing — which started in December 2014 — began with a mere number of 87 tickets being sold per day until 2015..