Thursday I went to Oslo to give a short talk on e-commerce at Creuna Norway’s brunch seminar at the SAS Radisson Scandinavia Hotel. Great event featuring the true Gentleman of Statistics, Edward O’Hara from JupiterResearch, and several of my colleagues from Creuna Norway. And with 22°C and blue skies it was a real nice day in Oslo.
Anyway, what I wanted to tell is that the “Flytoget” – the (cool looking) rapid train from Oslo Central Station to Gardermoen Airport – has launched a new and really user friendly e-ticket system: Swipe your credit card through a reader and board the train. That’s all: No buttons to press, no ticket to wait for – just one swipe. Later you may download your receipt from the web.
It’s so simple that I almost doubted it would work – but it did. When you exit the train – swipe again to check out from the station. I love such simplicity. It’s not like the stupidly designed ticket machines in the Copenhagen Metro – but I’ll bitch about them some other time.
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