Thales delivers smart ticketing in Auckland

Following the successful roll-out of Thales’s ticketing systems across Auckland, New Zealand’s train and ferry networks, the company has been selected by Auckland Transport to extend its ticketing solution to the city’s bus network. Six months into operation, the interoperable and multimodal transport smart card of Auckland’s smart card, At Hop, developed by Thales, is working successfully. At Hop went live for train commuters across forty-two stations in October 2012 and one month later was extended to in
May 28, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
Following the successful roll-out of 596 Thales’s ticketing systems across Auckland, New Zealand’s train and ferry networks, the company has been selected by Auckland Transport to extend its ticketing solution to the city’s bus network.

Six months into operation, the interoperable and multimodal transport smart card of Auckland’s smart card, At Hop, developed by Thales, is working successfully.  

At Hop went live for train commuters across forty-two stations in October 2012 and one month later was extended to include twenty-three ferry wharves. The city’s bus system will officially go live later in 2013.

Greg Edmonds, Auckland Transport chief operating officer, said: “This is a project based on multimodal sophisticated technology which has been implemented around the world. At Hop is your one smart card for travel on public transport around Auckland. It is a convenient, re-useable smart card that stores value, either as money, or as a monthly rail pass.”

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