At many bus stops around the country, alongside the posted timetables, passengers can now also find QR codes to scan with their mobile phone. Scanning one brings up the next departure time.
A pilot project was launched in the Nordstad region back in 2024, where the QR codes at each stop were scanned on average around 120 times a day.
Now every stop in the country is being equipped with the service, with the codes already in place at 80% of the roughly 4,000 stops.
Yan Steil, deputy director of the Public Transport Administration, explained that the codes offered additional information alongside the traditional timetables and the administration's own app.
The main advantage, he said, was that at any stop in the country, passengers could see the name of the stop and the specific platform, on the correct side of the road.
Scanning the QR code then shows in real time exactly when the next bus is arriving. What the administration had tried to do, Steil said, was bridge the physical and the digital aspects of public transport.
