As Amtrak enlists iPhone service tools

Conductor training, train services will use the Apple phone as the root of several including the Boston from the electronic ticket scanners to Portland, Maine, San Jose, Sacramento, California since 11 / Government-owned corporation to oversee the Amtrak, the national railroad.

Summer at the end of 1700 conductor device Amtrak train, said nationwide use.

Print tickets for passengers and new systems or, to load on a conductor a special bar code scanning Smartphone screen can and, conductor that can track the passengers, Amtrak.

Don't need you also print the document and bring it to sales Logistics Manager and said Amtrak helped plan matte-Hardison, iPhone program. "We have many important improvement of customers and, once all Amtrak. ?

Amtrak, the number of companies has grown using mobile devices and improve the operations merge. Some pilots are using replacement Ipad cockpit flight manual and trying several police departments use the Iphone, and to identify the suspect, Ipad access to patient medical records and x line graph is used.

Book flights, check-in process train concert tickets the digitized world long overdue as it is. At the gateway to stay there until passengers on different platforms and hop on specific challenges, industry is off unlike the different times and flight to arrive here people one's face at the airport check-in.

Issued the outdated manual processes — the ticket in the bag, drill hole to send to the central location it is eventually scanned and entered into the database —, checks the tickets and did good passengers very track due to delay of processing between the.

You can monitor the new iPhone-driven system and conducting passenger check-in real time. Management of those seats will help: if passengers do not show, for example, other passengers and an empty seat to fill it becomes easier.

"Manual systems at all lot of guesswork involved," said to manipulate the Portland railway service from Patricia Quinn, Northern New England passenger rail Boston Amtrak / contracting agency Executive Director.

Cases, including the barcode scanner and an extra battery is equipped with each conductor of the iPhone is, there is a special application.

For example, in ready to adjust the wheelchair lift, truck train staff if disability is the particular stop, you can, you can specify conductors, engineers in apps.

Broken mechanics App, such as conductors, equipment failure report ability to toilet fixtures.

Means the new system, easier to change reservations or reservations for passengers. Earlier, she was refunded tickets, new need to buy one machine or agent through, for example, may change online or Amtrak iPhone app is she has.

IPhone system costs $ 7500000 Amtrak — 5500000 dollar for dollar software development hardware 2 million said.

Is for passengers of Amtrak's Smartphone app is currently available for the Iphone's only, Inc. at the beginning of the fall and the release of the appointment, it was working versions of Android devices. Still can load their tickets through Amtrak mobile Web site, users of other types of smartphones.