A PILOT STUDY ON INTEGRATED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TICKETING USING A CONTACTLESS SMART CARD IN TAIPEI METROPOLITAN AREA

Contactless smart card technologies became mature recently and have high application potential on public transportation integrated ticketing systems. There are many problems inherent in the existing bus magnetic system in Taipei Metropolitan Area. Three major drawbacks are transaction time is too long to tolerate, maintenance cost is too expensive, and it does not integrate bus and metro ticketing systems together. The basic contactless smart card specifications have been proposed as a draft base for regional and national integrated transportation ticketing system in Taiwan. Demonstration testing has been implemented in a staff based and a small scale customer field trial from this April to July. According to customer research most of the users viewed the contactless smart card favorably because they would be able to use the card on multiple transportation modes and to shorten transaction time on buses. For the covering abstract, see IRRD 490001.

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• Authors:
  • CHANG, F-S
  • HOU, RC-J
  • SHEN, K
• Conference:
  • MOBILITY FOR EVERYONE. 4TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, 21-24 OCTOBER 1997, BERLIN. (PAPER NO. 3062)
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 9 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Conferences; Payment; Public transit; Smart cards; Technology; Transportation modes
• Geographic Terms: Taiwan
• ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 8525: Conference; 272: Payment; 744: Public transport; 290: Smart card; 8138: Taiwan, province of; 3855: Technology; 1145: Transport mode
• Subject Areas: Finance; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00757218
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 17 1998 12:00AM