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Public transportation just got easier

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Public transportation just got easier

A new, innovative commuter app makes it very easy to travel and buy all types of tickets for bus, train and metro in Zealand and across the islands.

Din Offentlige Transport (DOT) is a collaboration between the Danish public transport companies DSB, Copenhagen Metro & Movia.

DOT was faced with challenges of low customer satisfaction, inflexible and obsolete digital channels, and new ticketing rules being introduced with a new metro line opening. Both of DOT’s existing apps lacked usability, and their out-of-date architectures made incremental improvements difficult to achieve. Netcompany developed a new app that handles both single-fare tickets and commuter cards, replacing the two existing apps altogether.

The app includes full route planning, allowing customers to select journeys based on time and price. Additionally, the commerce backends handle payments, pricing, receipts and refunds, making it easy for customers to manage their commuter cards and tickets — all in one place.

Netcompany’s solution also handles ticket validation and back-office processes related to communication, refunds and fraud detection.

For DOT, the new solution means significant cost savings, more efficient ticket validation and strengthened fraud detection. What’s more, due to the app’s quick adoption and low operational costs, it’s earned DOT increased income too.

Innovative app makes public transportation easy and flexible while greatly reducing OPEX

Results

  • Increased customer satisfaction – the new app has a 4.3 star rating in the Apple App Store (compared to the 1.5-2 star rating for the two previous apps)
  • Customers can now combine products using a single app
  • Time to market was critical, since the new metro line was opening. With Netcompany’s strong execution, the deadline was met
  • Significant cost savings for DOT (only one app to operate and maintain)
  • More efficient ticket validation and fraud detection
  • Quick adoption of the app and low operational costs has resulted in increased income for DOT
  • Over 40% of all users are purchasing tickets through the new DOT app
  • Over 100,000 monthly active users
  • Over 400,000 ticket purchases every month

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Thomas Cordth

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