Singapore’s The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is seeking industry’s views on the technology, equipment and services necessary to upgrade the current AFC system to support a hands free solution that will enable a commuter to take the public transport without the need to tap a fare card on the fare gates or processors in future. The LTA’s vision for the future is a fare payment system where technology will help detect and automatically register commuters in a bus or train, so long as the commuter has the fare card somewhere on him.
Commuters currently need to hold a local smart card to travel within public transport. Fares are collected using contactless smart card technology, which are EZ-Link cards and NETs FlashPay cards. In transit, commuters tap-in and tap-out their cards at the rail station fare gates or bus entry/exit processors for their fares to be calculated.
LTA Chief Executive, Chew Men Leong, said, “With the advancement of technology, it is timely for us to start exploring a hands free AFC system in our public transport system.
LTA will use the information gathered from this RFI exercise to develop the requirements for a proof-of-concept trial by the end of 2016. The RFI exercise today, 18 November, and will conclude on 29 February 2016. The Request for Information can be found on the LTA’s <%$Linker:2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal website Visit www.gebiz.gov.sg website false http://www.gebiz.gov.sg/ false false %>.
Commuters currently need to hold a local smart card to travel within public transport. Fares are collected using contactless smart card technology, which are EZ-Link cards and NETs FlashPay cards. In transit, commuters tap-in and tap-out their cards at the rail station fare gates or bus entry/exit processors for their fares to be calculated.
LTA Chief Executive, Chew Men Leong, said, “With the advancement of technology, it is timely for us to start exploring a hands free AFC system in our public transport system.
LTA will use the information gathered from this RFI exercise to develop the requirements for a proof-of-concept trial by the end of 2016. The RFI exercise today, 18 November, and will conclude on 29 February 2016. The Request for Information can be found on the LTA’s <%$Linker:
