E-Ticketing brings speed and convenience

E-ticketing is helping to cut fraud and enhance travelers’ experience, while enabling mass transit operators to roll out new revenue generating services. Across the globe, too, contactless ticketing is replacing paper and magnetic formats.

Using contactless technology, passengers can now board buses, tramways and trains quickly and simply with a wave of their e-ticket; and pilot projects now underway allow passengers to pay their fare with their cell phones. For added convenience, interoperable tickets allow commuters to switch easily between mass transportation modes.
 

Expertise and innovation

Gemalto has pioneered contactless solutions for mass transit systems for more than 10 years and to date we have delivered more than 100 million contactless cards. With this long experience, expertise in 2G and 3G SIM cards, unrivalled industrial capabilities, worldwide coverage and commitment to innovation, we supply a complete portfolio of contactless products. All this makes us the ideal partner for operators seeking to deploy innovative fare payment technologies.

More recently, we have been helping city authorities in Europe and the US to roll out e-payment solutions for alternative modes of transportation such as “bicycle rental on demand.”

>> Europe

  France
21st Century ticketing for Paris

France’s E Ticket

 Paris combines a dense subway (Metro) system, extensive municipal and commercial surface bus lines and a commuter rail service covering a wide suburban area.
The NAVIGO™ contactless pass, introduced in 2000, uses Gemalto’s dual-interface (contact and contactless) smart cards with Calypso microprocessor technology. The card is personalized with a photo ID, name and electric data and then mailed by Gemalto.
The 1.5 million NAVIGO™ passes now in circulation are usable right across the urban region’s metro, bus and rail systems.
  United Kingdom
London travelers get smart

UK’s E Ticket

 London has one of the largest contactless smart card initiatives in the world, changing the way people pay for travel on the subway (Tube), bus, Docklands Light Railway and Tramlink. The Oyster® branded cards cut out queuing and are quick and easy to use and recharge.
Gemalto is a key supplier, and has so far delivered over 10 million cards, helping smooth urban transport for over 8 million passenger-trips a day.
Sweden


 		  In Sweden, Stockholm's Lokaltrafik AB awarded Gemalto a contract to provide 1.4 million Celego Mifare™ contactless cards. This includes several of our Allynis services such as a web-based Sales and Logistics interface, and our “CardLikeMe” which enables users to upload a picture of their choice to be printed on their personalized card.

 

>> Americas

Chile
Contactless in Chile

Chili’s E Ticket

 Contactless technology was central to the renovation of Santiago de Chile’s mass transit system. First to benefit was the city’s subway, with more than 300 terminals and 160 reload points installed in 2003. E-ticketing was then extended to include Metrobus.  Today 8,500 buses are also equipped with contactless readers. The 5 million daily travelers can reload their cards at stations or at one of the 900 shops located around the city.
Transantiago chose Gemalto’s e-ticketing solution because of earlier successful roll-outs in Latin America. They also appreciated our innovative semi-transparent card body, our ability to honor tight schedules, our capacity to handle complex projects involving other players and our local manufacturing and sales presence.
Gemalto delivered around 4 million cards for the Santiago transit system in 2006.
  Mexico
 		Leon, in Mexico, became that country’s first city to implement a rapid bus transportation system. Gemalto was chosen by PagoBus to provide 400,000 Celego Mifare™ contactless cards starting mid-2007.
  USA
Making public transport quicker and easier

 Millions of passengers in Boston are traveling with greater speed and convenience by using our secure contactless cards.
Commuters simply hold them close to a reader that instantly deducts the fare or validates their pass. 

Gemalto garnered several important and innovative projects with major cities worldwide in 2007. Among them, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority selected  our transit payment devices for a project representing 3.5 million units.

 

>> Asia

China
Developing transport schemes in China

China’s E Ticket

 China was an early adopter of contactless technology and Gemalto has helped it deploy the world’s first programs in this sector. As a result we have delivered several million cards over the past ten years.
Today some of China’s largest metropolitan areas, including Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Chengdu and many provincial centers use Gemalto products and services for effective, profitable mass transit
Gemalto has also delivered toll road solutions, with successful roll-outs in several dynamic provinces.  Chinese municipal authorities have repeatedly picked Gemalto for its local manufacturing capabilities, the quality of its cards, its capacity to deliver complete solutions including personalization and its rapid delivery times.