The Delhi Metro Rail Company (DMRC) on Friday launched a devoted cell app for its passengers for producing handy and hassle-free mobile-based QR-code tickets for travelling throughout its community, officers stated.
The app ‘DMRC TRAVEL’ was formally launched by Vikas Kumar, Managing Director, DMRC from the Metro Bhawan right here within the presence of senior officers.
With this new cell app, passengers can now buy tickets straight from their smartphones, eliminating the necessity to go to ticket counters or merchandising machines or stand in queues. Passengers can now expertise a fast and environment friendly ticketing course of, saving worthwhile time throughout their commute.
The app helps a wide range of cost strategies, together with UPI, credit score/debit playing cards, and e-wallets, making certain flexibility and comfort for customers. Passengers can select their most popular cost choice and simply full the transaction inside the app itself, the Delhi Metro Rail Company (DMRC) stated in an announcement.
As well as, this app has different passenger-centric options like journey planner, fare calculator, station data, and sensible card recharge. It additionally exhibits route data from origin to vacation spot, together with interchange stations. One can view transaction historical past, re-book a ticket for identical origin-destination and return journey, it stated
The app will likely be accessible for obtain on Android platform which will likely be adopted by iOS platform quickly, permitting a variety of customers to expertise the comfort of cell Fast Response (QR)-code ticketing. Passengers are inspired to obtain the app from their respective app shops and discover the options and advantages it gives, it added.
With the intention to present such person pleasant, cashless and quick mode of ticketing, the DMRC carried out a mammoth technically difficult train of upgrading its AFC gates, which had been already in passenger providers, on all its corridors with out shutting down these gates even for a single day in report time, the officers stated.
Your entire train was taken up principally throughout restricted time accessible within the evening as soon as the passenger providers had been over, in a fashion that when the providers resumed subsequent day, all of the gates had been once more saved useful for passengers. The DMRC has already upgraded over 60 per cent of its AFC gates with QR-code scanners and remaining are additionally focused to be lined inside subsequent one or two months, they stated.
With the introduction of the ‘DMRC TRAVEL’ app, it goals to reinforce the general commuting expertise of passengers by offering a contemporary and user-friendly ticketing answer. This initiative aligns with DMRC’s dedication to leveraging know-how for the snug commute of its valued passengers, it stated.