E-Tickets: NZTA To Create National Ticketing Standards
August 18th, 2010
Ticketing system providers and other transport organisations have given the green light to the NZ Transport Agency’s development of a set of national standards for integrated public transport ticketing by the end of the year. The agency’s aim is to provide a system for public transport consumers, transport operators, regional councils and the Govt. National operating standards will define how the central core of a national system will function, as well as how operator equipment such as on-board bus ticketing machines will interact with the system. NZTA group manager of regional partnerships and planning, Dave Brash says “this standards approach will enable us to establish a long-term integrated national system that regions throughout New Zealand can cost-effectively link into. It opens the door to contestability on transport ticketing equipment while ensuring the development of a cost-effective, nationally-integrated system.”
Auckland will be the first region to adopt the national integrated ticketing system, to be followed by other regions, which will also have the ability to collect formal strategic information about public transport usage. The process is being assisted by Dutch consultants Collis, who have helped develop other multi-modal integrated card systems in Europe and Dubai. Organisations involved in defining the standards are ARTA, the Bus and Coach Association, Environment Canterbury, Electronic Ticketing Systems, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Init Pty Ltd, KiwiRail, Snapper, Thales and HTS Group.
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