元器件交易网讯 5月5日消息，据外媒瘾科技报道，多亏了大纽约交通运输管理局（MTA）和Masabi达成的协议，可在用户手机上显示的数字火车票不久就会推出。

　　11家公司能为纽约建造这一系统。2012年MTA和Masabi进行了据说很成功的试验，随后它们签订了这一协议。

　　并不是每一天轨道上都能赶上电子火车票的首班车，仅仅默特罗（Metro）北段轨道和长岛（Long Island）火车线路能与这一最新技术挂钩。

　　一旦程序运行，用户可通过手机买票、检票。首批软件安装包主要面向苹果，很多城市已有类似的计划。Masabi 在波士顿、圣地亚哥和长岛（Long Island）都有相似的票务程序。发布日期还未确认，因此不要期望在几周内就能尝鲜。

　　MasabiCEO Ben Whitaker称，MTA系统非常庞大，所以需要花费相当长一段时间。（元器件交易网刘光明 译）

　　外媒原文如下：

　　Part of New York City's train system is set to get a 21st-century kick in the pants. Digital tickets that live on commuters' smartphones will soon be introduced thanks to a deal inked between the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Board and Masabi, one of eleven companies that offered to build such a system for the city. The pact follows a -- presumably successful -- trial conducted between Masabi and the MTA in 2012. Not every locomotive route will see paperless ticketing at first; only the Metro-North Railroad and the Long Island Railroad are scheduled to be equipped with the new tech.

　　Once the program is firing on all cylinders, users will be able to buy tickets and present them to conductors using only their phones. While the setup will be a first for the Big Apple, a number of cities already have similar schemes. Masabi alone has has similar ticketing programs in Boston, San Diego and even Long Island. There's no firm launch date in place for the MTA's solution, so don't expect to see it running in a matter of weeks. Ben Whitaker, Masabi's CEO, told the Wall Street Journal's Digits blog that the MTA system is so massive that "planning, training and testing" will take a fair amount of time. For now, dead-tree tickets will still have to do.