New app calculates the cheapest price
Get in, check in the smartphone app, get out, check out and automatically pay the cheapest price for bus or tram ride: The popular Bibo app of Stadtwerke Augsburg (SWA). The idea behind it: Even without precise knowledge of the tariff offer, occasional drivers come to the best fare for you. Now a similar offer comes back: With the next update, « AVVSwipe » is integrated into the « MeinAVV » app and then applies in the entire network area. The cheapest fare for all trips on a calendar day is always calculated at the end of the day. This is how the new development occurred.
In the best times of the BIBO app, up to 5000 customers per month used the offer that combined single and patrol tickets as well as daily, weekly and monthly tickets and calculated the cheapest price for all trips within a calendar month. So it never became more expensive than a monthly ticket. The development of the app was funded as a pilot project by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (BMVI) and was with the mobility price of the metropolitan region Munich was awarded. But with the introduction of the Germany ticket, which currently costs 58 euros a month, demand quickly decreased. Because: Anyone who is not only on public transport occasionally has the best offer anyway. Therefore, AVVSWipe only calculates on a daily basis.
Local transport: New AVV offering is attractive for tourists
For this purpose, various means of transport can now be combined in the composite area, trams, SWA and AVV buses as well as regional trains. The asset system, the call system in the rural area of the AVV, is also to be integrated this year, according to the AVV. Alone driving with the Swaxi in Augsburg Or the Rufbus branch in the surrounding area are not integrated, according to the AVV authorized representative, Irene Goßner. Because their own tariffs apply to them. In addition, the best fare can not only be booked for one person, but also for passengers. The basis is first the price for a strip of an e-strip card, i.e. 1.62 euros, without a complete strip card to be bought.
« With AVVSwipe we have an attractive and above all simple ticket offer for everyone who only occasionally use public transport », So Manuela Schaar, managing director of the AVV. « Customers do not have to worry about tariff zones and types of ticket – they always have the right and cheapest ticket with AVVSwipe. » Tourists who are only briefly in the city could also benefit. The offer was initially developed by a service provider for the Munich Transport and Tariff Association MVV, where the app as a MVVSwipe has been in use since the beginning of the year. The AVV has joined the system as a client. This was easy, it says from the AVV, because the ticket shop and the timetable information were already delivered by the same service provider.
Customers should report to the AVV whether everything works
However, not all tests have been completed in practice so far, the AVV announced. So far, it has not been tested under full load. Therefore, the AVV is now hoping for the help of the users. After the checkout, they should give feedback via a pop-up window whether everything worked. In the future, the aim is to continue to expand the AVV app into a mobility platform on which as many offers as possible can be booked, even beyond the usual local transport.
