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Transport assocation to address tech issues, ticketing infrastructures

The Open Standard for Public Transport Alliance, an international provider of transit fare collection solutions, announced the launch of North American Sub-Working Group, consisting of members and experts who have an interest in North American public transport.

December 10, 2014

The Open Standard for Public Transport Alliance, an international provider of transit fare collection solutions, announced the launch of North American Sub-Working Group, consisting of members and experts who have an interest in North American public transport. The goal of the group centers on engaging stakeholders operating across North America to understand current and future ticketing requirements, and contributing to communication on the advancement of OSPT Alliance's open standard CIPURSE. The association will work to highlight benefits of integrating CIPURSE into existing ticket kiosks and infrastructures for cost efficiencies and supporting non-transport applications.

Laurent Cremer, executive director of OSPT Alliance, said in the announcement, "We recognize that North America is a key market for the alliance and wanted to demonstrate our commitment by establishing this working group. The alliance understands that each transport community faces different challenges and opportunities, and it is vital that we understand and respond to advance the ecosystem. This will only be achieved by having North American representatives contributing to our work."

The Sub-WG is to be chaired by Arnaud Moser, director of marketing and business development for chip cards and security at Infineon Technologies, who said, "There is a realization from the transport community that an interoperable and vendor-neutral ecosystem will foster the next generation of fare collection and revenue technology. Program owners want to capitalize on multiple-partner projects that can also better support mobile services, such as payment and security, to encourage customer loyalty and engagement.

"Our objective, therefore, is to not only explain how to integrate CIPURSE into fare collection and revenue systems today, but also better understand the unique factors impacting the North American transport community tomorrow and respond in a proactive manner."

 CIPURSE is built on ISO 7816-4, AES-128, ISO/IEC 14443-4, ISO/IEC 10373-6, ISO/IEC 18092 and INCITS-410 for multiple payment types.