Lyon opens up to Worldline payment

More than 4,000 contactless validators on bus, tram and metro routes in French city
By Adam Hill June 7, 2022 Read time: 2 mins
The system calculates the best fare, made up of either single tickets or a capped daily maximum amount beyond three journeys (© Prochasson Frederic | Dreamstime.com)

Payment services provider Worldline is introducing its contactless Open Payment solution on the Lyon public transport network for transit agency Sytral Mobilités.

The largest of six projects where Worldline is deploying the product in France, the company worked with Caisse d'Epargne Rhône-Alpes to offer validation and control equipment, a central system and a fully-secure payment chain certified by the CB, Visa and Mastercard schemes.

The TCL Bankcard service is based on the Worldline Open Payment WL Tap 2 Use solution and more than 4,000 Yoval validators on over 100 bus routes, seven tram lines, four metro lines and two funiculars, as well as the park and ride service in the Lyon area.

Users do not have to register or download an app - they simply tap to validate their journey.

The system consolidates these throughout the day to calculate the best fare, made up of either single tickets or a capped daily maximum amount beyond three journeys. 

A user portal allows travellers to obtain a receipt for expense claims.

Jean Chaussade, Sytral's deputy director of equipment and assets, praised the partners: "Their concerted efforts mean that occasional travellers in the Lyon metropolitan area and visitors now have a new and particularly simple way of accessing its public transport network."

Aurélien Barbier-Accary, director of Worldline MTS France, said: "Open Payment has been a great success wherever it has been launched and we have seen up to 45% of unit ticket revenues at one of our customers."

Classification & Data Collection GIS/ Mapping & Location Based Systems Networking & Communication Systems

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Machine vision’s image of road management’s future
    June 11, 2015
    Q-Free’s Marco Sinnema looks at how the commoditisation of high-quality vision-based solutions is widening their application. Machine vision technology’s entry into the ITS/traffic management sector has followed a classic top-down path. This is unsurprising given the extremely demanding performance criteria which are the standard in its market of origin, manufacturing processing. Very high image qualities combined with frame rates often in the hundreds per second range resulted in vision systems with capabi
    Read More
  • Muvo e-ticketing card launched in South Africa
    September 10, 2012
    The successful launch of the Muvo SmartCard marks the beginning of the modern era of e-ticketing in the Durban region in South Africa. The Muvo card replaces ordinary tickets and functions as a kind of electronic wallet, allowing cash or ticket products to be loaded on to it at electronic terminals. As part of the new infrastructure, the eThekwini Transport Authority (ETA) purchased the Almex Electronic Fare Collection system with ticket printer from German manufacturer Hoeft & Wessel. The system has been
    Read More
  • Demand management schemes, is there a better way?
    January 31, 2012
    The European Commission is placing too much emphasis on the use of demand management, according to the FIA. Here, Wil Botman, Director-General of the FIA's European Bureau, explains why. Towards the end of last year, the European Bureau of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) released a statement which criticised the European Commission's (EC's) approach to urban traffic congestion following the adoption of the Action Plan on Urban Mobility. In particular, the FIA voiced concerns over what it
    Read More
  • Widest bridge in the world Port Mann open in Vancouver
    April 25, 2013
    Port Mann Bridge, designed to growing regional congestion and improve the movement of people, goods and transit throughout greater Vancouver, is now open for business. The widest bridge in the world, the Port Mann Bridge located in the metro Vancouver area, in British Columbia, Canada, features an Open Road Tolling (ORT) system, also called All Electronic Tolling (AET), which will ultimately cross all 10 lanes of traffic.
    Read More

Highlighted Content