In Europe each country has its own idiosyncratic public transport presence online. Netherlands has NS and NS international. Both are different apps, one works internally and one for international. There's also GVB, 9292 and OVPay but I forget what's the best way to do it (this is kind of my point). All of them have some overlap. To be fair - Netherlands is one of the simpler countries that just requires you to tap in and tap out using Debit card and this process generally works well. The other apps exist to give more options and discounts. In Germany its even more complicated with DB app with all sorts of random tickets for daily, one way, two way and so on. Today I was met with lots of anxiety while taking a regional train in Germany. There was literally no way to purchase the ticket. After some digging with ChatGPT, I found out that you have to physically purchase this ticket in a kiosk. I'm genuinely not sure how a person is supposed to intuitively understand this. Denmark, a…
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