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One step, while the train is still moving

  1. 1

    The journey is already known

    A ticket, an EasyRide check-in or the last connection chosen gives the train and the time. Without a ticket, the journey is picked from the real timetable.

  2. 2

    Report in a single entry

    A category and a short description are enough. No account, no multi-page form.

  3. 3

    The report reaches whoever is nearby

    Crew on that journey see it in real time and can search before the train reaches its turnaround. Fellow passengers on the same journey can opt in to be notified.

Assumption — not measured

Reporting while still aboard should raise the chance an item is recovered, because the vehicle reaches its terminus within 10–30 minutes, turnaround cleaning follows within 5–15, and another passenger may take the item at any point

What this does not support: Reasoned from mechanism, NOT measured. No published figure links time-to-report to recovery rate; the widely repeated “report within 30 minutes” claim has no traceable source. The product instruments time-to-report so this can eventually be answered rather than asserted.

Who is notified — and who is not

A concept that does not say which half already exists is a mock-up with better typesetting. So it is stated at every point.

  • Crew on this journey

    Built and running

    Reference, category and location. Never a description, a contact detail or an identifier.

  • Passengers who opted in

    Designed, not built

    Opt-in only, same journey only, switchable off at any time.

  • A public list of found items

    No. A public list of recovered items is a shopping list.

  • A finder’s reward

    No. Legally barred — and paying crowds out the very motive it tries to buy.

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