CR Mumbai’s mobile ticketing numbers witness rise

The usage of Unreserved Ticketing System UTS app over Mumbai division of Central Railway has shown an incremental growth from January 1 to May 26 this year with 1393 crore passengers opting for it with a daily average of 961 lakh people using the facility About 2523 per cent passengers have used Mobile UTS app amp Automatic Ticket Vending MachinesATVM during the periodThe UTS app is now also available in Marathi language along with Hindi and EnglishThe total no of tickets booked through station windows UTS app and ATVMs is about 5529 crores with total earnings from tickets booked through station windows UTS app and ATVMs at Rs 52542 crores The combined total earnings from tickets booked through UTS app and ATVMs is Rs 16597 croreCentral Railwayrsquos chief public relations officer Shivraj Manaspure said that the UTS app now has various salient features like multiple season tickets that can be renewed or issued for Mumbai Suburban passengers working on the field need to travel more than one route from different source stations to different destinationsShivraj said ldquoNow users can avail multiple season tickets The paperless season tickets can be booked for the current date Earlier paperless season ticketrsquos validity commenced only from the next day With the newly released feature users can book paperless season tickets with validity commencing from the same day provided that the user is standing outside the geofenced area Provision to have default option as suburban for selecting stations located in suburban section Default option of suburban makes it convenient for the user for selecting the source and destination stations as only the stations falling under suburban section are filtered and made visible to the userrdquoHe further said that for the suburban section the distance restriction for booking tickets has been enhanced from existing 2 Km and fixed as 5 Km for all concerned Zonal RailwaysrdquoldquoThis restriction of 5 Kms has been enhanced upto 10 Kms with effect from 10012023 Users can now book UTS tickets within the periphery range of 10 km from the source station for suburban stations This relaxation gave a great impetus to the growth of commuters opting for UTS tickets as majority of the offices companies etc fall under the periphery of 5 10 Km from the stations enabling the users to book their tickets sitting in their offices companies etc and need not hassle at the last minute for booking tickets on the gordquo he explainedldquoFor the nonsuburban section the distance restriction for booking tickets has been enhanced from existing 5 km to 20 kms for all Zonal Railways Users can now book UTS tickets when in a periphery of 20 Km range from the source station for nonsuburban stationsrdquo he addedThe data Daily average of passengers booking tickets through station windows UTS app and ATVMs 3809 lakhs Daily average of passengers using UTS app amp ATVMs 961 lakhs Daily average of earnings from tickets booked through station windows UTS app and ATVMs Rs 362 crores Daily average of earnings from tickets booked through UTS app and ATVMs Rs 114 crores Percentage of passengers using UTS app amp ATVMs daily 2523 per cent Percentage of earnings from from tickets booked through UTS app and ATVMs daily 3158 per cent