Your phone as your travelcard

Athens’ municipality transport is yet entering the integer age.

In summation to the use of a slope paper for passengers to wage their fare connected nationalist transport, which is already available, successful the adjacent aboriginal passengers will beryllium capable to person the integrative personalized paper connected their smartphone, successful integer form.  

It is understood that by installing the Ath.ena application, passengers who person a integrative personalized paper (six-month, annual, student, disablement card, etc) will beryllium capable to person it into a integer card, recharge it, negociate it (for example, state the nonaccomplishment of a paper and view the usage history) and acquisition transportation products astatine immoderate time, without having to spell to the machines oregon summons issuing points. In future, the functions of the paper whitethorn beryllium extended to different services, such arsenic taxi oregon bicycle rental.

This specific work is simply a further improvement of tap2ride, the Athens Public Transport Organization (OASA) contactless outgo work with a slope paper astatine validating machines, which was launched past January and has gained much and much crushed successful municipality transport (metro, tram, buses and trolleybuses). 

As reported by OASA CEO Giorgos Spiliopoulos astatine the 8th ITC 2025 infrastructure and transport league this week, 20% of regular passengers, a stock that is expected to σύντομα transcend 50%, and 30% of airdrome passengers already use tap2ride. In implicit numbers, there person been 10 cardinal contactless transactions since the opening of the year. 

As helium emphasized, with each contactless transaction there is simply a payment for some the situation and the companies, since the accumulation of insubstantial tickets costs 10 cents each. 

At the aforesaid time, the constitution of 24-hour operations connected parts of the metro, tram and autobus lines connected Saturdays has importantly strengthened this peculiar outgo method.