Using your Card to collect tickets, and the User Interface

[island]

Surely self printed or mobile phone tickets would be easier?

Easier to forge?

 

[PauloDavesi]

No, easier for the customer.

Self printed boarding passes seem to work well for most airlines and I'd be surprised if they had a significant issue with forgery. M-tickets are even easier and greener.

 

[jon0844]

Self printed tickets are fine if there's a live system in place to check (and kill) them to stop multiple use, or indeed fraud in that some people will accept them without scanning them (as they don't have working equipment, or are simply not bothered).

I see no reason that staff can't be given terminals that are connected to a mobile network at all times. Besides cost, but eventually I am sure this will happen and it brings many benefits.

NFC may also allow customers to download tickets to their mobile (or any smartcard) which can be scanned in the same way as any other smartcard. In fact, having a choice for the customer can only be a good thing, as long as the equipment to read/verify can cope with them all. There's equipment right now that could.

 

[radamfi]

Dutch Railways (for all domestic and some international trains) and Belgian Railways (for some international trains) are very happy to allow self print for non-Advance, flexible tickets. They are valid on any train on the day printed on the ticket by the person named on the ticket, secured by ID. So you could print numerous copies of the ticket but the only fraud you could commit would be for the same person to travel between the same two locations more than once on the same day. Not many people want to do that.