FPT provide rail e-ticket system for VNR

The VND 197 billion project will be completed in three stages over a period of seven years. It is expected that the system will be installed at all stations in the country over six years, starting from November 21st, 2015.

The signing ceremony was attened by senior leaders of VNR and FPT with many news agencies.

“The co-operation between FPT and VNR will make a significant improvement by applying IT to VNR’s operations, raise its efficiency and credibility among customers, and support the company to make a great contribution to the development of the country,” FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh said.

FPT will work with experienced partners in the field of building passenger railway systems in Japan and Germany to design an automatic ticket distribution and seating channel.

VNR will also be provided with tools to analyze seat occupancy and groups of passengers and to mapout appropriate business strategies in different period. The e-ticket system is expected to help reduce ticket prices and stimulate demand for train travel.

The system provides customers with all information about trains and publishes the availability of tickets. The online tickets can be purchased anytime and anywhere through various means including messages, emails, electronic boards, smartphones etc.

For VNR, the electronic booking system helps improve the quality of service and provide passengers with flexible adjustment of ticket prices depending on the route and duration of the journey, and increase the demand for railway transportation.

“The electronic booking system helps passengers to book tickets easily on their smartphones or tablets with Internet access. This is a breakthrough of the railway sector in order to regain its transportation in the national transportation system,” VNR CEO Tran Ngoc Thanh.

The rail e-ticket system of VNR is an important cooperation project between FPT and VNR in the form of providing IT services. Under the contract, FPT will provide servers and equipment to support VNR to sell tickets online. In return, FPT will get a certain percentage of online ticket sales.