Specialist school bus ticketing platform ShuttleID has launched a new style of digital bus ticket that has been designed to work on virtually any type of ‘brick’ mobile phone. The company says the development is designed to support an emerging trend of brick phone adoption by parents of school children following concerns about the impact of smartphones on children’s education and behaviour which have led to calls to ban smartphones, not only inside the classroom but beyond.
Embracing an attitude change which is seeing more and more schools and parents consider the idea of banning smartphones in the classroom, ShuttleID has developed a new style of digital bus ticket that will work on virtually any type of so-called ‘brick’ phone, helping transport operators play a key role in a wider societal shift. The technology is driven by a QR code that displays on the phone, which is then scanned by the driver’s device.
ShuttleID has developed and identified up to six different ways to transfer the digital ticket onto a brick phone, working with the hardware constraints. Director Chris Bell said: “This topic has gained momentum in the past year, and as parents with young children ourselves, the impact of social media and smartphones is something we’re mindful of. Over the years transport has become deeply embedded into smartphone usage. Brickets aims to break that dependency and helps transport operators normalise brick phone usage amongst school children. The change means operators can inclusively support any type of bus ticket, whether it’s printed, on a smartphone or on a brick phone.”
ShuttleID will be demonstrating its new ‘brickets’ and its wider ticketing platform at Euro Bus Expo.
