New initiatives to fast-track railway
By Rob Lovitt, msnbc.com contributor
Reports of the travel experience Future 2011 in Vancouver, BC
When you talk about the future of travel, the train is probably not the first image that comes to mind. United States, at least, many travelers still regard the railway as a horse as much iron as the innovative operator.
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would suggest otherwise. Despite often well-deserved reputation of being slow on the uptake of technology, intercity rail provider in the country is the deployment of initiatives such as a startup in Silicon Valley.
Among recent developments:
Hipmunk on: Thursday, Hipmunk, the site airfare search that uses a graphical display to highlight routes "index of agony," began to show train tickets / schedule next to the information of air for city pairs that is used. on the iPhone: In August, the company unveiled a free application in the App Store, enabling customers to plan and book travel, change reservations, check state of the train stations to explore and connect to their accounts Guest Rewards. rethinks the ticket-punch: In California and New England, is running pilot programs in which drivers are using readers handheld barcode scanner for tickets rather than paper punch they use for decades.
"The ticket-punch is a technology 120 years and, unfortunately, the state was," said Dee Waddell, Information Officer of the group. "We hope this will be the beginning of a revolution in the industry. "
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Rob Lovitt is a travel writer for a long time who still believes the journey is as important as the destination. Follow him on Twitter.
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