Reposted from www.touche-nfc.com This is the second part of our series of four blogs about the Feasibility Study touché conducted in Bristol, testing the use of smartphones in combination with Bluetooth Smart beacons and the touché locate back office. This post focuses on the Behavioural Study, managed by UWE and funded by ITSO. The project…
DetailsUK Smart Ticketing – Mystery Shopper Project – Part 2 By Trevor Crotch-Harvey, 22.2.17 This is Part 2 of my blog post on the Mystery Shopper project on UK smart and mobile ticketing schemes during October – December 2016. Ticket products offered on cards are not what passengers want One of…
DetailsUK Smart Ticketing – Mystery Shopper Project – Part 1 By Trevor Crotch-Harvey, 22.2.17 During October – December 2016, Fenbrook conducted a Mystery Shopper project on smart and mobile ticketing schemes throughout the UK. This was a crowd funded project, and Fenbrook is grateful to those organisations which made it possible through their subscriptions.…
Details(Also posted on the touché website.) NFC is emerging as a strong contender for delivering a common, easy-to-use technology solution in the field of transport ticketing. While the technology underpinning NFC is now well understood, and beginning to be deployed in applications around the world, there are still potential issues and problems with its use…
DetailsA major report was published last month on the UK Transport Card Forum website by Working Group 22: Contactless Payments in Transport. I had the pleasure to chair this group over eighteen months and there were some excellent contributions by several experts. Here’s an outline of what the report says… Contactless Payment Cards (CPCs) continue…
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