Personnel tickets
Provide reduced fares on train travel for employees and pensioners within participating companies in the Norwegian railway industry. Family members such as spouses, partners, and dependent children may also be eligible for discounted travel under the personnel ticket scheme, subject to defined eligibility criteria.
Ownership and responsibilities
The scheme is owned by the Norwegian Railway Directorate and technically operated and managed by Entur. Entur provides the infrastructure that enables companies to register eligible users, maintain their entitlements, and ensure that discounts are correctly applied when tickets are purchased.
Prerequisites
Companies that wish to offer personnel tickets to their employees must enter into a personnel ticket agreement with Entur. This agreement defines the rules for eligibility, usage, and reporting within the scheme. Once the agreement is in place, the company can obtain authentication credentials and begin integrating with the available APIs.
What you can do with the APIs
Once onboarded, partner companies can use Entur's APIs to
- Register and manage employees and eligible family members
- Connect customer profiles to their personnel ticket rights
- Enable discounted ticket purchases for personnel ticket holders
- Retrieve reports on personnel ticket usage
In practice, this means that employees registered in the scheme can access discounted fares when purchasing tickets from participating railway operators, based on the rights assigned by the personnel ticket system. The assignment of personnel ticket rights is based on the rights assigned to them by the personnel ticket system, using employee data provided by their employer.