“VRE is the first transit system in the greater Washington, D.C., area to offer riders a mobile app for paying their fares,” said VRE Chief Executive Officer Doug Allen. “It’s an easy-to-use option to buy and use fares.”
The new VRE Mobile app enables passengers to:
• Purchase, store, use, and validate Single Ride, Day Pass, Five Day, Ten Trip and Monthly Passes from a smartphone, removing the need to keep track of paper tickets
• Use SmartBenefitsSM to purchase tickets and passes
• Use disability, senior and youth fares within the app
• Use multiple tickets for multiple riders from a single smartphone
• Split payment between two credit cards, or a credit card and SmartBenefitsSM account
• Create an account and store information for future purchases and manage account information and purchase tickets that appear instantly on the phone through www.vre.org
• Eliminate the need to stop at a VRE vendor location or a VRE ticket vending machine
• Purchase Amtrak Step-up tickets for use with multi-ride VRE tickets on select Amtrak trains
VRE partnered with GlobeSherpa to create the mobile ticketing app. VRE Mobile is designed to provide future interoperability with regional partner fare products, including WMATA’s SmartBenefitsSM, Amtrak and other transit providers.
To learn more about VRE Mobile, visit www.vre.org/mobile.
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