SNCF Connect is launching a new service, called Just Go, to allow you to take the train without a ticket purchased in advance and at advantageous prices. A way to make regional public transport more attractive!
Being able to manage all your transport tickets or subscriptions from one application has greatly facilitated the task of SNCF customers. This avoids having to print your ticket in advance, having to stamp it and losing it. But it will soon be even simpler since it will be possible to take the TER without having purchased your ticket first. In fact, on October 18, SNCF deployed a new service, called Just Go, integrated into the SNCF Connect application. The goal ? “We pay exactly what we consume”. More precisely, Just Go will allow payment for use, without having to anticipate your journey. The promise of making travel easier for regular users, who will no longer have to choose between different train schedules. To benefit from it, all you need is an SNCF Connect account as well as a telephone number and a bank card, and have activated geolocation on your smartphone.
SNCF Just Go: jumping on the bandwagon, or almost
To take advantage of this new function, simply go to the SNCF Connect application and register from the tab “offers” Or “tickets”, then select “Just Go” once we are at our departure station. “Once you board a regional train, you declare yourself in the application and you are geolocated using your smartphone. Then when you get off the train, you declare yourself, you are geolocated again and there, we are able to calculate your route. HAS At the end of the month, you will be billed for all of your journeys.”explains Anne Pruvot, general director of SNCF Connect & Tech, to BFMTV. “We pay exactly what we consume”. If you forget, a message is sent by the application if “we observe that the geolocation shows that the user is no longer on the train’s trajectory”she adds.
The application then calculates the precise journey taken by the traveler and applies the corresponding fare. The user receives the invoice at the end of the month with all the trips made. And it is on the pricing that Just Go wants to be advantageous. “The Just Go service makes sure to charge the best available rate. You can easily control your spending at any time for the current/billed order from the tickets tab of the app“. Concretely, the monthly invoice takes into account all journeys. If the total prices exceed that of a monthly subscription, then the most advantageous rate will apply. And as we know in advance the price of the subscription, we are sure not to exceed it. “This allows you to no longer have to think at the start of the month between ‘do I take a subscription or not?it’s very useful for teleworkers who have to do a whole bunch of calculations at the start of the month, Just Go saves them from this”, explains Anne Pruvot. A way to strengthen the attractiveness of public transport and respond to changes in use, such as partial teleworking, which reduces the number of times we have to go to our workplace. Moreover, Just Go is eligible for the various reimbursement schemes offered by companies for home-work travel. If the offer should be aimed at all TER users in France, it is currently reserved for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, where it is being tested. Other regions are expected to follow quickly.