Smart Ticketing Alliance launched

Two years after signing the Memorandum of Understanding, the five founder members of the Smart Ticketing Alliance formally launched the Alliance, putting it on a formal legal footing which will lead the way towards a single transport implementation specification for NFC phones across Europe and cross border acceptance, facilitating the implementation and deployment of NFC-enabled devices. Encouraged by endorsement from the EU’s Transport Commissioner, Siim Kallas, the Alliance has been busy setting up Wo
June 25, 2014 Read time: 1 min
Two years after signing the Memorandum of Understanding, the five founder members of the smart Ticketing Alliance formally launched the Alliance, putting it on a formal legal footing which will lead the way towards a single transport implementation specification for NFC phones across Europe and cross border acceptance, facilitating the implementation and deployment of NFC-enabled devices.

Encouraged by endorsement from the EU’s Transport Commissioner, Siim Kallas, the Alliance has been busy setting up Working Groups looking at the contactless interface, NFC, certification and media security.

John Verity of the UK’s smart ticketing organisation 3836 ITSO has been elected as its first chair. “The transport smartcard industry is very fragmented and needs a single voice across Europe, and wider, to get what we need from the latest customer smart media. We need security, we need speed and we need consistency in response from suppliers,” he said.

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