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Indra to equip Buenos Aires train network with access control and ticketing

Spanish multinational Indra is to deploy its access control and ticketing technology across the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (BAMA) rail network, one of the world's largest with more than 200 stations. The contract also includes system maintenance during a two-year period. Argentina's national rail operator has awarded Indra the contract, worth US$39 million, under which the firm will equip eight lines with 1,400 access control machines, or turnstiles; 170 disabled entrances; 200 automatic recharging m
February 16, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Spanish multinational 509 Indra is to deploy its access control and ticketing technology across the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (BAMA) rail network, one of the world's largest with more than 200 stations. The contract also includes system maintenance during a two-year period.

Argentina's national rail operator has awarded Indra the contract, worth US$39 million, under which the firm will equip eight lines with 1,400 access control machines, or turnstiles; 170 disabled entrances; 200 automatic recharging machines for contactless SUBE cards, which are used to access all public transport in the city; as well as 150 on-board validators and 230 on-platform validators, which passengers use to pay their fare. The company will also supply 160 in-station transaction hubs and 300 journey inspection terminals.

A monitoring and control solution, which compiles information from a number of different subsystems and helps improve service management, will also be developed and implemented by Indra. The new technology is intended to speed up passenger control and fare collection, while also helping to combat fraudulent use of the rail network.

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