Thales to upgrade Taipei’s metro ticketing

As part of Taiwan’s Ministry of Transport and Communications’ initiative to respond to the need for wider interoperability, the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation, which operates the concession for the metro network in Taipei, has opted for Thales’s fare collection solution, to be rolled out progressively throughout 2016. The upgrade covers the entire metro network, including more than 1,500 fare gates across 120 stations, with a daily flow of over 1.97 million passengers. The Thales solution includes the
March 22, 2016 Read time: 1 min
As part of Taiwan’s Ministry of Transport and Communications’ initiative to respond to the need for wider interoperability, the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation, which operates the concession for the metro network in Taipei, has opted for 596 Thales’s fare collection solution, to be rolled out progressively throughout 2016. The upgrade covers the entire metro network, including more than 1,500 fare gates across 120 stations, with a daily flow of over 1.97 million passengers.

The Thales solution includes the replacement of contactless smartcard readers for all the existing fare gates and back-office management of secured transactions. The solution will enable the fast and secured validation of any card: Kaohsiung Metro’s smartcard, 7Eleven smartcard, Taichung Metropolitan smartcard or HappyCash smartcard. 

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