Using the Railway Mobile Terminals in the Process of Validation and Vending Tickets

This article describes the functional and technical side of Railways Ltd. mobile terminals project. The advantage of mobile terminals lies in the greater efficiency of railway tickets vending, the control and the real-time supervision of complete process of vending tickets in the country. Mobile terminals allow railway conductors to automatically vend and verify tickets by themselves. Also information about each sold ticket is transmitted wirelessly via GSM/GRPS in real-time or near real-time. The information about sold tickets is received by the central server and stored in the main database. This data is available for analysis and report making.