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June 23, 2011 | Intesa Sanpaolo Deploys Gemalto Contactless Prepaid Card Designed for Tourists Visiting Italy
May 10, 2011 | Stockholm Public Transport Deploys Gemalto End-to-End Solution for World's First Customized Travel Card
Oyster – London's hidden treasure
Why Londoners love contactless.
Mass transit operators, particularly those in the world’s major cities, face considerable challenges. They need to maximize commuter throughput as well as reduce fraud. They also want to replace the use of cash, and create opportunities for marketing and co-branding.
We address all these issues in one clear proposition. As a result, our contactless Celego cards are used to access mass transit systems in 30 cities of over one million inhabitants including London, Paris, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago. To date we’ve rolled out more than 140 million contactless travel cards.
Passengers appreciate the convenience of these devices while operators value the extra revenue protection. Unauthorized travel is reduced and, with our cryptographic expertise, fraud is all but eliminated.
The transport sector is increasingly benefitting from the opportunities provided by technological convergence. For example, operators are partnering with financial institutions to combine payment and transport ticketing on a single contactless card. And they’re combining with the mobile industry to put both payment and ticketing on mobile handsets using Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology.
>> Mobile NFC Video
Near-Fied-Communication
(NFC) isn't just about payment in shops, you can also load your travel pass.
> Watch the video
In Stockholm, we’re helping them use solutions for the personalization of
payment cards (our AllAboutMe software) to create a world first: the option for
users to design their own customized travel cards online, at home, with their
own personal photo. With our associated issuance services, commuters get their
card by mail within a few days.
France
21st Century ticketing for Paris
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.
The success of London’s Oyster smart card for travel has helped to increase awareness and acceptance of contactless technology in the United Kingdom
Transport for London (TfL), the local government body responsible for developing and managing transportation services in the capital, introduced the Oyster card in 2003. According to Shashi Verma, TfL’s Director of Fares and Ticketing, eight million people use it regularly, with more than 43 million cards having been issued in total. Oyster cards are now used to pay for 96% of all bus trips and 80% of train journeys, which has cut the number of paper tickets issued by two thirds and reduced lines drastically. “We’re trying to take the pain out of traveling,” says Verma. Read more about Oyster.
Sweden
1.4 million Celego Mifare™ contactless cards
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.
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
A rapid bus transportation
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
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.
China
Developing transport schemes
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.
