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Journey and automatically charges you. one system using bluetooth beacons is already active in genoa and paul carter has been to take a look. our cities are changing. and so the way we we navigate them is changing too. in many major cities around the world, technology being used for integrated fares and ticketing across modes of transport are now commonplace. but making such multimodal systems truly frictionless by removing the need to buy tickets is taking things to the next level. and in the northern italian city of genoa, they are doing just that. in some instances, quite literally.

From boats to elevators. so we thought that if we managed to connect the city, which is really complex geography and landscape, we can scale up as much as we want. it uses bluetooth beacons placed throughout the city which automatically detect the journey a passenger makes and what mode of transport they use. it's pretty easy. we cover all stops of buses, underground, elevators, furniculars, track rails of the city, we equip them with bluetooth sensors and each and every mobile telephone nowadays is fitted with a bluetooth antenna and this communicates throughout the app to the sensor and loca...

So embarrassing. orfor the bus or london underground, it's easy. things might get easier with smart ticketing, which would spell the end for ticket barriers. instead, sensors will talk to an app which tracks your journey and automatically charges you. one system using bluetooth beacons is already active in genoa and paul carter has been to take a look. our cities are changing. and so the way we navigate them is changing too. in many major cities around the world, technology being used for integrated fares and ticketing across modes of transport are now commonplace. but making such multimodal s...

We can scale up as much as we want. it uses bluetooth beacons placed throughout the city, which automatically detect the journey a passenger makes and what modes of transport they use. it's pretty easy. i mean, we covered all stops of buses, underground, elevators, funiculars, track rails of the city. we equip them with bluetooth sensors and each and every mobile telephone nowadays is fitted with a bluetooth antenna, and this communicates throughout the app to the sensor and localises the position of the travellers in association with a particular stop or a means of transportation. i mean, wha...

You use it on the bus or the london underground that is so embarrassing. things might get easier, with smart ticketing... one thing that's changing is the way we pay for public transport. many of us are ditching paper money and tickets and instead using smartphones or, like you, smartwatches to pay for our journey. i never carry cash but one time i went to pay for this at a shop and i didn't have it on. it was a bare wrist, so embarrassing. 0rfor the bus or london underground, it's easy. things might get easier with smart ticketing, which would spell the end for ticket barriers. instead, senso...