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 far
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:
