Western Australia PTA chooses Flowbird for SmartRider scheme
Western Australia PTA chooses Flowbird for SmartRider scheme
The Public Transport Authority of Western Australia has chosen Flowbird Transport Intelligence as the prime contractor for its multimodal smart card scheme, SmartRider.
The contactless electronic ticketing system uses RFID technology to provide Perth’s metropolitan region with access to bus, train and ferry services.
Flowbird will provide ongoing support services for the daily running of SmartRider on all three modes. The company says it will establish “an enhanced service and support base” in Perth to s
November 26, 2018
Read time: 1 min
The 4290 Public Transport Authority of Western Australia has chosen Flowbird Transport Intelligence as the prime contractor for its multimodal smart card scheme, SmartRider.
The contactless electronic ticketing system uses RFID technology to provide Perth’s metropolitan region with access to bus, train and ferry services.
Flowbird will provide ongoing support services for the daily running of SmartRider on all three modes. The company says it will establish “an enhanced service and support base” in Perth to support the contract.
In %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000link-external Northern Irelandfalsehttp://www.itsinternational.com/sections/transmart/news/translink-launches-ticketing-system-for-glider-bus-network/falsefalse%>, Flowbird developed CloudFare, a back-office architecture for Translink's future ticketing system called CloudFare at the of the Glider bus rapid transit network in Belfast.
ITS Australia has appointed Professor Majid Sarvi from the University of Melbourne to its board of directors.
Sarvi, the founder of transport technology programme AIMES, is the first academic to join the board.
AIMES (Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem) includes the university’s live test bed on Melbourne’s streets, and has close links with Michigan Department of Transportation.
Sarvi described it as a “great honour to be elected by my peers in the ITS industry and to have the opportunity t