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Germany and France in talks about shared railway tickets (www.sueddeutsche.de)
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Sorry for the German source, I couldn't find an English one.

Apparently, there are first talks between the German and French traffic ministers to expand the national railway tickets (49€ ticket on the German side, a soon-to-be equivalent in France) in the respecting neighbour country. It's still a more than early stage, will take several years and will have to overcome the incompetency of Wissing, but the idea is intriguing.

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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think the way to do this is to have an open API for booking trains, like planes do. That's how Expedia, Google Flights, ITA matrix, etc work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system

Apparently there is some progress in Sweden about this: https://www.railtech.com/all/2022/11/14/what-can-countries-learn-from-sweden-when-it-comes-to-multi-modal-ticketing/?gdpr=accept

But I think there will probably have to be some sort of EU regulation to get this to happen EU-wide any time soon.