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Germany and France in talks about shared railway tickets (www.sueddeutsche.de)

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Sorry for the German source, I couldn't find an English one.

Apparently, there are first talks between the German and French traffic ministers to expand the national railway tickets (49€ ticket on the German side, a soon-to-be equivalent in France) in the respecting neighbour country. It's still a more than early stage, will take several years and will have to overcome the incompetency of Wissing, but the idea is intriguing.

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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 1 year ago

I think the way to do this is to have an open API for booking trains, like planes do. That's how Expedia, Google Flights, ITA matrix, etc work.

Apparently there is some progress in Sweden about this: https://www.railtech.com/all/2022/11/14/what-can-countries-learn-from-sweden-when-it-comes-to-multi-modal-ticketing/?gdpr=accept

But I think there will probably have to be some sort of EU regulation to get this to happen EU-wide any time soon.