19.06.2014: Starting today, the people living in the Cluj-Napoca urban and metropolitan area can easily pay their bus, trolleybus and tram tickets by using the newest and most comfortable smartphone application: BileTel Cluj. Consecutive to the recent Cluj-Napoca City Hall’s ticket payment system via SMS, Nagy Gergő – a young programming student who is attending our Codespring Mentoring Program, has developed in a record time the application that favors smartphone users. Currently BileTel Cluj is available for Android.
BileTel Cluj
The application allows people traveling in Cluj to pay via their smartphone the one-trip single-line tickets or daily all-line tickets. The steps are easy and comfortable:
A) For simple tickets:
- Select the type of ticket you want to buy
- Select the bus/trolleybus line
- Confirm the choice
Note that the tickets have limited availability durations (40, 60, 80 minutes). The purchase is confirmed via a reply SMS from the receiver.
A) For daily ticket
- Select the daily ticket option
- Confirm
Note that the daily tickets are available for 24 hours for all bus and trolleybus lines. The purchase is confirmed via a reply SMS from the receiver.
Tickets and their codes:
| Code |
Duration and lines |
Coverage Area |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Line number (6, 25, etc.) | One trip, one line, 45 minutes | Urban | 0.5 Euro + VAT |
| T | All lines, 60 minutes | Urban | 0.9 Euro + VAT |
| A | All lines, 24 hours | Urban | 2,6 Euro + VAT |
| M40 | All lines, 40 minutes | Metropolitan + Urban | 0.9 + VAT |
| M60 | All lines, 60 minutes | Metropolitan + Urban | 1,35 + VAT |
| M80 | All lines, 80 minutes | Metropolitan + Urban | 1,80 + VAT |
| MA | All lines, 24 hours | Metropolitan + Urban | 4 Euro + VAT |
The application can be found on Google Play at the following link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gery.biletelcluj
Enjoy your ride in the city, to the office, to the university and stop being stressed whether you can buy the tickets at the station or not. Download the app, jump in the bus and pay your ticket via your smartphone.
Once again, we congratulate Gery for this smart app and we are waiting for further developments!
