By the end of last February 2009 eT3 started another new challenging project consisting of automates ticket process for trains without reservation at the Egyptian National Railways known as ENR.

With its 158 years of existence, the Egyptian National Railways is considered to be the second eldest railways in the world after the British Railways. Trains without reservations represent over 90% of trains' traffic over the Egyptian territory serving more than 2 million passengers on a daily basis.

The real challenge of the project was to implement a quick win solution, easy to use by ENR's cashiers, and using a limited budget.

eT3, after performing a basic requirements' analysis, defined automation requirements, ENR's ticketing automation as appearing on the following picture, will require a solution based on touch POS technology, running an Arabic readymade retail package, using leased lines or GPRS connectivity as a backup to link railways stations to a centralized data center responsible on one hand to consolidate financial results of ENR's railways stations and on the other hand broadcast the new prices and trains items to be sold on the railways stations, the whole solution should take a phase approach as the number of ENR's railways stations is more than 900 stations, finally the application and basic platform should be centrally managed in ENR's Cairo head office.