Fujitsu, in collaboration with Ingenico, has upgraded UK transport operator Merseyrail’s ticketing systems to enable contactless payment, enabling 63 Merseyrail stations across the UK to offer contactless payment in terminals and manned ticket outlets.
Merseyrail will retain the Fujitsu Star point-of-sale ticketing system which it has operated for the past nine years and Fujitsu, in conjunction with Ingenico, will provide 92 iPP320 contactless PinPads and Axis, its proprietary centralised payment proces
Car and ride sharing is just one example of the new on-demand economy allowing real-time matching of supply and demand through connected smartphone applications. According to ABI Research, successive forms of vehicle sharing approaches represent paradigm shifts in uptake and popularity; each new generation seeing adoption rates at least an order of magnitude larger than the previous: Car sharing 1.0 - street rental service: Cars parked on the street can be located, unlocked, used, and left behind. Examples
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Ertico has partnered with Belgian firm Be-Mobile to develop technology platforms for connected cars and to prepare for autonomous, multi-modal and shared mobility.
Be-Mobile works to help road operators and the car industry tackle traffic jams. It also works on traffic monitoring and guidance, electronic toll collection, multimodal route planning and mobile parking payment.
Additionally, Be-Mobile offers services for connected cars and traffic platforms to enable the deployment of cooperative-ITS use ca
