Single-Trip, Double-Trip, 30-minutes, 90-minutes, adults, children, elderly, including transfers, not including transfers, daily ticket, monthly ticket, 20 times ticket, zone A, zone B, multiple Zone, etc. So many different options to remember and to manage...

One of my most troubling experience was the need to find my route and to select the right ticket when I were in Japan, it was quite hard to manage inside a foreign system of transportation and avoid getting a fine if I made a mistake. But even when I'm dealing with my country's public transportation system I find myself in doubt exactly what type of ticket should I buy.

But even after I've spend time on the line for the tickets vending machine or to a manually managed system, I still need to validate my card when I'm getting aboard the bus, train, sub, or boat. If I forget to do so, the ticket is not valid and I may get a fine for it.

The idea is to use mobile money along as the smartphone abilities to communication with its surrounding using many types of protocols and also its ability to communicate through the internet with the transportation system using the smartphone owner's properties and configuration to be able to select the suitable ticket or plan for the ride.

A smartphone app shall be use for pre-configuration of the owner parameters and properties. Age, entitlements, prefer addresses (home, work, businesses, school) and times. It shall use these parameters to optimize the ticket or plan purchase and also perform the validation process automatically.

No more need to stand in line to buy your tickets, no more need to select the suitable plan or ticket that perfectly match your route and eligibility, no more need to validate your ticket when you are aboard. Everything is managed automatically as you preconfigured.

The user shall be able also to perform an action which is quite hard nowadays - to dynamically change his route after starting his trip. Switching trains outside the preconfigured zone shall be performed using an online and real-time purchase of the suitable ticket.

The mobile money shall be capable, if this idea become real, to make the user fully mobile, without hassle, while giving him the best offer in terms of price.