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Revision as of 05:02, 30 January 2012

Touch&Travel in use (checking in using 3D barcode)

Touch&Travel was a program at Deutsche Bahn I was involved with when I worked there

iPhone Touch&Travel Check-in Mode Screen
After you travel it's time to check out
After you check out, you get a receipt

TouchandTravel App Icon.png

Contents

What is Touch&Travel?

Touch&Travel is a program by Deutsche Bahn to let people pay for the train using their cell phones. A user could "check in" at their departure station, travel on Deutsche Bahn and partner systems, "check out" at their destination, and then receive a monthly bill with their travel costs automatically calculated. Before I joined, the program was a 3-year pilot using NFC technology. However, at the time NFC technology was only available on Nokia "feature" flip phones.

My work

I re-imagined Touch&Travel to work with smartphones. I started by designing the UI. I made a pie-in-the-sky version and a more realistic version. I also designed how the app could work securely without NFC. The app can use either geolocation, 3D barcodes, or a simple stop number to allow users to check in. This is then validated with network-based location services from the carrier (with user permission, of course!).

Release

On January 6, 2011, right on schedule, Deutsche Bahn released the beta of the Touch&Travel iPhone application. The architecture of how the application fit into their existing system was right how I had designed it over the summer. They made some tweaks to the UI, but ~80% of the UI was as I had designed it. Some of the artwork I prepared over the summer even made it into the application.

In particular I am happy that they took my icons for the check in methods. It would be so cool if those icons would be printed in stations and/or added to their style manual. Germany corporations, including Deutsche Bahn, are some of the great patrons of modern typography and modernist design. I would be honored if my work was a part of that.

Current Status

As of January 2012, the project is still in piolt.

News Stories

All of the news stories are in German, unfortunately

‎*Inside-hotel.de: Touch&Travel mit dem iPhone nutzen

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