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Smart Travel With KVV Homezone

With our joint “Homezone” project, the transport association of Karlsruhe (KVV) wants to revolutionise their ticketing!

Two young passengers on a light rail train look at a phone together

Homezone Replaces Tickets

The hassle of purchasing tickets becomes obsolete with the new KVV Homezone. Customers can define their Homezone in the app, which was developed for iOS, Android and web using the cross-platform development tool Flutter. This radius can encompass the daily commute to work or the distance between home and the city center.

The main focus of the project has been on the backend, the part of the system that is invisible to the naked eye. It manages and administers several different ticket models while taking several factors into account. A novel algorithm dynamically and quickly calculates prices and distances.

Features

Using KVV Homezone makes travel simple:

  • Ticketing
  • Fast and dynamic calculation of prices
  • Definition of a Homezone
  • Managing the Homezone

Agile, Fast, Flexible

We carried out this project within a tight schedule. Like many other of our projects, we managed this project using Scrum, an agile development method. Due to this approach we were able to react quickly to changing requirements, short term issues and added requests at any stage of the project.

The system can easily be integrated into the existing app and is able to complement ticketing tariffs.

Photo: © KVV, Paul Gärtner

A hand holds a phone setting up a new home zone: map radius, price and the number of stops includedA yellow and red AVG light rail train passing a vineyard with a castle aboveTwo app views: the start screen with distance tariff and check-in, and a map of the KVV network area with its linesTwo app views for defining a home zone: radius by slider, the resulting price, and a list of the 154 stops includedTwo app views: an overview of saved home zones, and the beta ticket as a QR code with validity and price

Foto: © KVV, Christian Ernst · Foto: © KVV, Paul Gärtner

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