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Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
Lots of people throwing out names of cities with electronic fare payment.
Hong Kong - Octopus
Netherlands - Chipkaart
London - Oyster
Vancouver - Compass
(and yes, Edmonton - Blue)
One technology is behind it all - MIFARE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIFARE
It's there, go get it. Stop getting screwed around by vendors like you're the Canadian Military. |
It looks like they just make the smart cards themselves. You'd still need the whole system to handle everything else.
Cubic (
http://cts.cubic.com/en-us/customers.aspx) is the company behind the Oyster, New York's MetroCard, Vancouver's system and a lot more, but many companies offer these types of systems.
Telvent says they've done systems that handle 2.5 billion passengers per day, but I can't find the actual cities where they've deployed similar systems.