QR Code Payment to Take the Public Transportation

From 2017, Alipay began to apply the “dual offline QR code payment” technology to subway gates in cities such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xi’an, and Guangzhou intensively. The passenger paid by “virtual public transportation cards” in the Alipay card package or use “Metro Metropolis” (Shanghai), “Easy Access” (Beijing) and other rail transit official Apps can scan the code through the mobile phone and solved the problem of poor network signal coverage in the subway. This technology has been used in public transport in some cities throughout the country in 2016. 

In an interview with the reporter, Liu Xiaojie, the general manager from the Ant Financial Services Group business department, revealed that the Shanghai Metro is expected to complete the transformation of the entire network gates by the end of the year. It means all the gates can be paid by using mobile code scanning. At present, this proportion is about 40%, but the specific progress also depends on the track arrangements. In terms of public transport, more than 50 cities across the country achieved Alipay scan codes currently, and they will be expanded to 100 cities in the next year, with channels developing to the third and fourth-tier cities.

A Shanghai Metro staff member stated that because of the large amount of changes and coins received each day, the amount checking after work is usually takes until late at night. This situation is more prominent in the public transport system. In the past, Hangzhou public transport received about 1.7 million yuan changes per day, which accounted for 48% of the amount of bus fares. The team of nearly 200 people specially counted these changes every day, even the bank doesn’t want to receive these changes to exchange. Hangzhou has accessing to PayPal and other mobile payment instruments over the past year, the use of change in the use of the public transport reduced by 20%. 

This small detail is just one of the reasons why public transportation owners are willing to accept the Internet. The bigger appeal is the improvement of technology to operational efficiency.

So, if the city wants to be an environmental protection and energy saving city, it is imperative to increase public transport travel rates. How to achieve it? Of course, choosing a barcode scanner which can improve operational efficiency is the best choice.

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