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Indra scoops South American ticketing contracts

Spanish ticketing provider Indra has been awarded two new ticketing contracts worth a total of US$7.3 million in South America. For the Sao Paulo subway in Brazil, the company will implement the access control and ticket validation systems for the eleven stations of the Line 5 extension. The systems will simultaneously process and manage magnetic tickets as well as the single ticket contactless cards and the metropolitan area cards, providing intermodality between the subway and buses in the urban and m
February 19, 2014 Read time: 1 min
Spanish ticketing provider 509 Indra has been awarded two new ticketing contracts worth a total of US$7.3 million in South America.

For the Sao Paulo subway in Brazil, the company will implement the access control and ticket validation systems for the eleven stations of the Line 5 extension. The systems will simultaneously process and manage magnetic tickets as well as the single ticket contactless cards and the metropolitan area cards, providing intermodality between the subway and buses in the urban and metropolitan areas of Sao Paulo.

Indra will also provide support services to public transport provider 5348 Transantiago in the Chilean capital of Santiago.  The five-year contract involves the maintenance of the integrated payment platform of the Santiago subway, including maintenance of Transantiago’s integrated payment platform. The technology used in the Santiago subway integrates the Transantiago multimodal system and uses contactless cards for payment.

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