A high-speed ICE train. or "tickets please" may soon be a thing of the past with the increasing digitalisation of rail travel in Germany. On selected high-speed ICE services you can now be your own conductor with the 'Comfort Check-in' option on the DB Navigator app. The 'Comfort Check-in' option, the test phase of which began in August, is currently being trialed on high-speed ICE connections from Dortmund to Stuttgart, Stuttgart to Essen, Hamburg to Berlin, and lastly between Hamburg and Munich. To use the service you simply need to open the My Tickets section of the DB smartphone app, open Travel and select 'Comfort Check-in'.

Source: The Local September 11, 2017 13:07 UTC