Mobile Ticketing; Getting Popular due to Its Convenience and Enhanced Accessibility
Mobile ticketing is the process where customers can order, pay for, obtain, and validate tickets over the Internet using mobile phones. Many bus and train operators worldwide have created mobile apps that allow mobile ticketing. Mobile tickets reduce the production and distribution costs associated with paper-based ticketing. The principle is very simple. When the user buy a ticket on the Internet by entering a phone number, barcode ticket will be sent to the user’s phone, which is M-ticket (mobile ticket). Mobile ticketing is a digital process where an individual can pay through third-party payment services (online transaction) and avail a digital form of the ticket, making this entire process paperless. However, the provision of a mobile number is important in mobile ticketing as it helps determine whether to text or send an image barcode or an alphanumeric code saved by the user as a digital ticket. Therefore, due to its various advantages, convenience, and enhanced accessi...