Buses World News

Contactless Ticketing * USA - ACS to provide it for Lima Bus system

Lima,Peru -Datamonitor via COMTEX (USA) -July 15, 2009: -- (ACS) Affiliated Computer Services has won a 14-year $200m contract from Protransporte to provide Peru's capital Lima with a contactless ticketing system for the city's buses... The company will supply and operate a fully integrated fleet management and ticketing application for the Bus Rapid Transit system in one of the busiest areas of Lima. The line is intended to carry over 700,000 passengers a day, and 10 similar ticketing systems are expected to be installed over the next few years... (Photo from farm1.static.flickr)

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SMART CARDS * UK - Buy your bus tickets using your phone

Waving your mobile in the face of technology

Harrow,England,UK -The Inquirer, by Emma Hughes -22 January 2009: -- The Department for Transport has now completed its first live mobile ticketing trial for buses using the ITSO smartcard standard mandated by the government... This primary trail took place over a six-month period in the north west of England involving 36 passengers traveling using two bus operators. The tickets were paid for using a near-field communication (NFC) mobile phone... In order to find out if this plan was to succeed two steps needed to be taken, firstly to see how feasible it was to use an NFC phone as an ITSO ticket carrier and secondly to work out if ITSO compliant products are actually able to be remotely loaded and validated on NFC enabled customer devices...

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Electronic Ticketing * Bangladesh - For buses under study

Dhaka,Bangladesh -The Daily Star -9 Nov 2008: -- A private bus operator's desire to begin a new era in ticketing may not come true as early they may have wanted. But the days are not too far away... Officials at Trans Silva Transport Bangladesh Limited are planning to abolish paper-ticket system and install electronic fare card readers in its buses. But they are yet to find the most befitting and acceptable way to introduce it in the capital city. According to Giasuddin Chowdhury, director (operations) and a spokesperson for Trans Silva Transport .. However, BRTA officials believe the new scheme, despite its potential, should be put on hold until an elected government takes charge of the country... Officials at Trans Silva Transport said the company has signed a contract with Sony Corporation who would supply and install the technology required for the new system... (Photo: STAR - Days are not too far away when these bus ticket counters on pavements will be a matter of the past)

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TICKETS FARES * India - MTC on the road to total electronic ticketing system

425 buses including 10 air-conditioned ones utilise electronic machines

Tamil Nadu,Chennai -The Hindu, by Krishna Velupillai -8 Feb 2008: -- Conductors in several city buses have been sporting a new accessory along with their characteristic coin purse. The electronic ticket machines were first introduced in air-conditioned buses last year. Following that, the time-tested, manually torn tickets in the delux buses were also replaced... A senior official of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation said that plans were in place to introduce them in the Vestibule and Express buses soon... (Photo by S. Thanthoni - New accessory: An MTC bus conductor using a new electronic ticketing machine on Wednesday)

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