Cellphones as bus tickets
p2pnet.net News:- Lost tickets could soon be a thing of the past for passengers in Hanau, a city near Frankfurt, Germany.
Beginning early next year, anyone riding RMV (Rhein-Main Verkehrsverbund) buses, there, will be able to use Nokia 3220 phones to pay their fare, says eBCVG IT Security.
Nokia, Royal Philips Electronics and RMV have announced a joint project to trial a Near Field Communication (NFC) ticketing system that uses mobile phones to access an existing contactless smart card ticketing infrastructure, they say.
The new ticketing system will be demonstrated at the Cartes IT & Ssecurity trade show in Paris, starting today and ending on November 4.
“The trial implementation is in line with the Association of German transport operators (Verein Deutscher Verkehrsbetriebe ,VDV), specification that has been developed for a country wide electronic ticketing core application (VDV Kernapplikation),” says eBCVG.
“NFC is compatible with Sony’s FeliCa(TM) card and the broadly established contactless smart card infrastructure based on ISO 14443 A, which is used in Philips’ MIFARE technology.”
If you speak German, you’ll find more here.
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pay their fare – Nokia, Philips and German Public Transport Network Operator RMV trial NFC for ticketing, November 2, 2004
