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The Public Transport e-Letter

I am delighted to be able to send you personally this first issue of our e-letter, which is intended exclusively for our clients and partners. I shall be paying close attention to your feedback so that we can improve this means of communication between us. I hope you will enjoy reading this...
Éric Jean

Editorial by Éric Jean, chairman of the board.


The French railways
take on board a new generation
of access control gates
 


 		 By signing a contract worth 50 million euros with Ascom to develop a new generation of automatic ticket gates, the French railways operator (SNCF) is aiming to make life easier for passengers and combat fraud.
Further details!
 

Châlons-en-Champagne
At the cutting edge of innovation

Since 1 August, the 32 buses of the Châlons-en-Champagne urban network have been equipped with a contactless ticketing system worthy of the biggest operators.
Find out more
 

Montreal
450 million users
and just one ticket

Soon, the passengers who make 450 million journeys a year on Montreal's 13 bus, underground and local train networks will need just one ticket!.
Further details!
 

Mexico  
First reserved-lane bus line
 

The first reserved-lane bus service in Mexico crosses León, a city of 1.2 million, in just 35 minutes. Passengers use a contactless ticket valid for any journey on all city bus lines. Read on

First "BOT" in Turkey
Like many other cities throughout the world, Bursa is facing ever-higher demands but has a limited budget to deal with them. Nevertheless, transport operator EAS has managed to do the impossible through Turkey's first Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) scheme.
Further details!



Contactless standards solid as a rock
Standard ISO/IEC 14443, the reference for contactless card communication, has been rock-solid since it was introduced in 2001. But that doesn't mean it is immutable, witness the latest sweeping changes concerning tests and performance levels.
Take note!

BUSES
The first Wi-Fi validator
The first validator on the market able to communicate over the Wi-Fi network, Ascom's Proxibus VPE415 is fitted with a very high bit-rate radio communication interface.
Read on

   
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