Madrid activates the public transport card on phones for 10 trips, tourist tickets and the airport supplement

«During the next six months, the download of this application for smartphones will be free and, currently, the Regional Transport Consortium (CRTM) is working so that in 2025 the monthly personal pass will also be available, which would achieve total digitalization, facilitating its widespread use including iOS technology,” said the counselor.

At the moment, the app works on devices that have NFC reading with Android 7.0 system and with Google Wallet. It is obtained from the Play Store and once installed and associated with the bank card it can be used. Throughout the testing phase, 19,400 users have used it and 588,500 trips have been made.

The counselor has taken advantage of his visit to this event, which has established itself as the main international reference meeting to address the future of sustainable mobility, to take a tour of the stand of more than 100 square meters that the Community of Madrid has installed at the fair.

In this space, the more than 10,000 professionals and 100 attending companies will be able to learn, in addition to this public transport card digitization project, the automation process of metro line 6. Likewise, the intelligent canopies of the Regional Transport Consortium are exhibited that provide relevant information to users of the interurban network and of which 947 have already been installed in 81 municipalities.

«The Global Mobility Call is an essential annual event and a fundamental showcase of the latest international advances in the field of sustainable mobility since the ideas, models, developments and products that have emerged over the last year will be condensed here. matter,” Rodrigo pointed out.