The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a decision on the introduction of railway tickets that indicate the last names of passengers, Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Kozak said at a briefing on Wednesday in Kyiv.
He said that passengers will present ID documents not when they buy tickets, but when they board the train. The ticket will have the name and last name of the passenger.
The minister said that the decision of the government would take effect in 15 days after its official publication.
As reported, Yevhen Dykhne, the chief engineer of Ukrzaliznytsia’s main passenger department, said Ukrzaliznytsia is to introduce e-tickets with QR codes for all domestic trains by the end of the current year. This technology has been utilized for the tickets sold for Intercity+ high-speed trains in a trial mode since February 5, 2013.
He said that the introduction of this technology on all domestic trains and the end of the use of registered high-security train tickets printed on special forms at booking offices would save Ukrzaliznytsia up to UAH 20 million every year.
