European Parliamen proposes single ticketing

The  European Parliament passed a resolution regarding the unification of the transport ticket system in the European Union with overwhelming majority, the Polish Press Agency reported. MEPs propose a transboundary ticket, which would allow citizens to use all modes of European transportation. The purpose of such action is to encourage the use of public transport and facillitate mobility. Tomasz Poręba, a Polish MEP from the Law and Justice party (PiS) , firmly advocated ease and convenience of use, as well as a lower price of the new ticket. Access to information concerning air, water, rail and road travel plays a pivotal role in this process. The EP wants to enable anyone to search all possible transport offers, make reservations and payments online, and use only one ticket to complete the whole journey. If the plan is incorporated, domestic information systems would merge by 2020 , and EU transportation unification would occur by 2024 . In five years' time, all EU members will be urged to equip all transport vehicles with real-time intelligent information services as a pre-emptive measure against superfluous traffic. The integration of infrastructure is indispensable, as statistics compiled by the Committee on Transport and Tourism of the EP prove. Estimates indicate that only 27.8 percent of EU citizens use other modes of transport  rather than cars.