DISTINCT: DEVELOPING A BUSINESS CASE FOR A CITIZEN CARD AND PROVIDING ACCESS FOR ALL

This paper describes the wide and varied activities of the DISTINCT project, which is migrating transport-based cards (developed in EU projects, such as ADEPT II, QUARTETPLUS and GRASP) to other sectors of use in a number of cities or regions of Europe, and making real integration of cross-sector services. The key to this has been the innovation of the smartcard-held DISTINCT ID and development of the business cases for the cities or regions necessary to take such an undertaking forward. An overview of applications and the business case which has been developed by the consortium is provided. The potential (and actual) adoption of DISTINCT by other cities and regions is also reported. (A*) For the covering abstract see ITRD E110327.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Blythe, P T
  • Shield, Carol K
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF 6TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS (ITS), HELD TORONTO, CANADA, NOVEMBER 8-12, 1999
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Economics; Financing; Intelligent transportation systems; Smart cards; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 255: Economics; 8034: Europe; 244: Financing; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 290: Smart card; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Economics; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00819170
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Nov 7 2001 12:00AM