Summarizing the State of the Art Analysis

Topics that were covered in every analysis were;

1. Ticket subscription payment service - (Hannes Westberg)
2. Smartphone Application for Statistics of Commuting - (Thomas von Prouss)
3. Smartwatch - (Joakim Adrup)
4. Direct Debit - (Charlotte Skogström)
5. Contactless payment in the London Metro - (Marcus Wallberg)
6. Buying Single Tickets - (Johanna Gustafsson)

1) Implement a possibility to subscribe to a ticket. To make the travel more convenient users should be given the option to connect a SL-access card with a credit card to automatically renew the ticket, so that users never need to worry about an expired ticket again.

http://group-d2.blogspot.se/2015/09/state-of-art-analysis-ticket.html

2) Adding an interactive way of letting commuters see their own statistics of travels gives a technological advantage of future projects. An example of this is integrating a way of letting users purchase a digital ticket directly in their smartphone. This would allow for many systems to be developed around the digital ticket and giving the possibility of a more manageable interactive interface to be updated and maintained.

http://group-d2.blogspot.se/2015/09/state-of-art-analysis-smartphone.html

3) Using Smartwatch technology for commuting purposes. Such as viewing commuting information (train arrivals, ticket information, etc.), easily reachable Smart device to use as a access card. The advantage being that it’s always on your wrist so there is no need to reach for things in your pocket. This makes life easier and traveling through the barrier more conveniently.

http://group-d2.blogspot.se/2015/09/state-of-art-analysis-smart-watch.html

4) Direct debit is an easy way to pay bills and is well suited for recurring bills. With direct debit, payment is deducted automatically on the correct day. If you pay for your travels at the end of each month, instead of paying beforehand, you’d know how many trips you’ve made and how much you should actually pay.

http://group-d2.blogspot.se/2015/09/state-of-art-analysis-direct-debit.html

5) The Contactless Payment in the London Metro lets the travelers use their bank card to pay for each travel instead of paying a monthly card in advance. The users can keep track online of the cost and there are caps that prevents the daily/weekly travel cost to be too high.

http://group-d2.blogspot.se/2015/09/contactless-payment-in-london-metro.html

6) There are many ways of buying single tickets for travellers who don’t use the public transportation very often. In the longer term, the Access Card is the cheapest choice, but to get the advantage of a card, you have to use it at least four times. Buying a ticket through the SL smartphone app, or by text message is not any cheaper than using the ticket vending machine or going to any retailers. Buying your tickets from the ticket vendor or the conductor is even more expensive.

http://group-d2.blogspot.se/2015/09/state-of-art-analysis-buying-single.html


Hopefully this data gathering will give us motivation to develop our project ideas in an iterative way. By reflecting on the usability today we can set experience goals for the travellers so that in the end we have an idea that will improve the overall experience of travelling in Stockholm.