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With 88% of transit agencies planning to deploy contactless ticketing within two years, cities like Dubai, Riyadh, and Doha are leading the charge toward open-loop fare collection

A quiet revolution is unfolding across the Middle East’s transport networks. Gone are the days of fumbling for cash or queuing at ticket machines. Instead, commuters are increasingly tapping their way through metro gates, boarding buses with a wave of their smartphones, and using digital wallets to pay for their daily commutes. Contactless and open-loop ticketing systems are becoming the new standard, marking a significant shift in how transit agencies manage fare collection.

With Presto – a contactless, automated fare system developed with the Government of Ontario – the project will result in "significant savings" to the City of Ottawa, according to the release.

Die bislang geschätzten E-Ticketing-Einführungskosten von mehr als 1 Milliarde Euro können durch eine konsequente Kooperation des Öffentlichen Personenverkehrs (ÖPV), der Telekommunikations- und der Finanzindustrie um 70 bis 80 Prozent reduziert werden. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine aktuelle Untersuchung der Technologieberatung Booz Allen Hamilton, die man heute in München präsentierte.

The Delhi Transport Corporation is set to launch a contactless smart card-based ticketing system for its vast city bus network.

The initiative, which is expected to go live within a month, is part of a larger agenda to eliminate paper-based passes and usher in a more efficient, eco-conscious fare collection system in India’s capital city. This development is being implemented under the guidance of the Delhi government, with the Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System (DIMTS) entrusted to oversee the rollout. DIMTS will also distribute the contactless cards to commuters for a nominal fee of ₹50. The original manufacturing and setup cost of each card is ₹71, but a significant portion of that will be subsidised to encourage widespread adoption. Once issued, the cards can be topped up or recharged easily, and pass renewals will cost ₹14.

The necessary laws to introduce e-ticketing in cinema houses would be brought in through an ordinance, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told presspersons after a Cabinet meeting today.

Earlier, Chandy while inaugurating a file tracking system of the secretariat titled ‘Information and Data Exchange Advanced System’ (IDEAS) said the Government wanted to strengthen e-governance in the State.

Very soon, selected Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) buses operating within the city limits will have surveillance cameras to monitor the driver and detect traffic violations, a passenger information system (PIS) and Android-based ticketing machines.

The project is being implemented in association with Smart City Thiruvananthapuram Limited (SCTL).

SCTL has invited tenders from firms for implementing the project. The location of the project will be the pan city area in the capital under the smart city project.

The i-ticket (Internet-ticket) facility, introduced by the Railways in 2002-03, allows users to book a ticket through the Internet, reports Business Line. But the ticket print-out is taken by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) and delivered by post to the passengers. The Railways, which launched e-tickets in 2005 after about a year of delay since the proposal was envisaged - feared that the e-tickets may be misused. E-tickets have proven to be a hit since their launch. Apart from the sheer ease of taking the print-out at the user's end without having to wait for a courier delivery, the fact that the service charge for booking e-tickets are cheaper than i-tickets also helped.

In immer mehr österreichischen Städten können Parkgebühren per Handy entrichtet werden. Nun wird die durchwegs erfolgreiche Lösung "m-parking" von Siemens Business Services, der mobilkom und der Porr AG auch in den Landeshauptstädten Bregenz und St. Pölten eingesetzt: Bregenz startete am 1. Oktober den Echtbetrieb, in St. Pölten wird es am 1. November soweit sein. Das System steht außerdem bereits in Wien, Stockerau, Gleisdorf und Mödling zur Verfügung. Insgesamt nutzen bereits 50.000 Autofahrer das Handy-Parksystem m-parking und vermeiden damit die lästige Suche nach Münzen oder den Weg zur nächsten Vorverkaufsstelle.

Lahore Transport Company (LTC) is heading towards the path of e-governance under public private partnership model for providing efficient public service delivery to the general public.

TPL Rupiya, in collaboration with Lahore Transport Company (LTC), has introduced the LTC Musafir card, it was told in a meeting held at LTC head office on Saturday. This NFC based card is a cashless fare payment solution in continuation of e-ticketing system in second phase.

IT systems, implemented ever more widely in all branches of the economy, also increasingly become tools for integration of various stages of transport process, transport modes, and transport offer of different entities functioning on the market.

E-ticketing technologies are increasingly used as tools for integrating public transport worldwide.

Tanzania’s development vision 2025 has identified that kind of enabling environment that is essential for the nation to flourish economically, socially, politically and culturally. It has taken into account expected changes and trends in the world of tomorrow. The implementation of the Vision will have to include developing Tanzania's position vis a vis those changes, and the need to deal with them through hard work, initiative, skills, as well as to make use of the many opportunities that will appear and the resources available in our country.

Under the “E-Ticketing” system, a motorist is given a summons printed out by a mobile printer in a police vehicle. Advocates say the system is faster than writing tickets by hand, allowing for officers and motorists to get back on the road faster.

The system is part of a shared services agreement between police departments in Bellmawr, Gloucester Township, Haddon Heights, Magnolia, Oaklyn, Pine Hill and Runnemede. It is to be officially announced at a press conference in Gloucester Township on Wednesday afternoon.

Electronic bus tickets are one of the important solutions helping transform Hà Nội into a smart city, bringing many benefits to the city and public transport users.

There are a total of 38 bus routes using electronic tickets under the pilot programme on the multi-modal ticket system for public transport in Hà Nội, said Nguyễn Phi Thường, director of the Hà Nội Department of Transport.

Eine neue Ausbaustufe für kontaktlose Fahrkarten soll nun in Kraft treten. Im Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) werden in Zusammenarbeit mit T-Systems, Nokia und Venyon Verbesserungen eingeführt. Dazu zählt, dass eTicket-Besitzer das Ticket bei der Fahrkartenkontrolle nicht mehr im Display des Mobiltelefons anzeigen müssen. Das NFC-fähige Mobiltelefon muss lediglich in der Nähe des Kontrollgerätes sein. Zudem möchte der RMV in absehbarerer Zeit das NFC-Fahrkartensortiment beispielsweise mit Zeitkarten erweitern. Dazu wird es möglich gemacht, die Tickets auf der SIM-Karte zu speichern, um so einen Wechsel des Telefons zu erleichtern.