“The Department for Transport [UK] has completed the first live ticketing trial using the government-mandated ITSO smartcard standard. The six-month trial in the north-west of England involved two bus operators and 36 passengers using near-field communication (NFC)-enabled mobile phones to pay for bus tickets. The first aim of the pilot was to demonstrate the viability of using an NFC phone as an ITSO ticket carrier, followed by testing to prove that ITSO-compliant products can be remotely loaded to, and validated on, NFC-enabled customer devices.” Link to full story in computing.co.uk.
Comments on this entry are closed.