Bring Your Own Token
I’ve just attended the Smartex Transport Card Forum (TCF) 2014 annual two-day event where I was presenting. The first day was about requirements and we heard from Passenger Focus that customer...
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Secure-enough transit mobile ticketing
This year, I’ve been mostly working on ITSO ticketing in NFC mobiles devices with HCE and without secure elements. ITSO is the e-ticketing specification supported by the Department for Transport in...
View ArticleManaging the join
Since 2008 we have been working with Transport for London to allow contactless payment cards (CPCs) to be accepted wherever Oyster cards are accepted. This was first achieved in December 2012 on buses...
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Technology roadmapping
In 2005 when we performed an update to our biometrics and identification technology roadmap for the UK police, body odour was a ‘technology’ that was looking interesting, but not mature enough. The...
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Wombling free
You all watch Only Connect, right? I was amazed to see a question I knew the answer to due to our nerdiness in specifying the software for Transport for London’s Tri-reader that works with Oyster,...
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Our live five for 2016
Well, however superficial they might be, there’s no doubting the popularity of the end of year roundup and predictions for the coming year. We don’t argue with the box office down at CHYP End, so here...
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Trends in smart ticketing
I’ve been thinking a lot about smart ticketing system trends in recent months. It is a subject of interest to a lot of our clients. Card-centric ‘Closed-loop’ Systems At the front-end of a smart...
View ArticleOpen-loop payment in transit
In my previous blog, I talked about the trends in smart ticketing systems leading to account-centric and open-loop payments which I want to consider in more detail in this blog. ‘Open-loop’ Payments...
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A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum
The Tomorrow’s Transactions Forum, that is. I arrived in good time (it’s always best to add on a few minutes to give yourself time to buy a ticket) for the 7.39 Flying Glacier to Waterloo via Misery...
View ArticleContactless bank cards not safe
According to Katie Morley from the Telegraph: Millions of passengers across Britain could be left stranded under plans for every bus in Britain to go cashless despite widespread security fears over...
View ArticleBeacons in Transit
You’ve probable heard about Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons being used to help the visually impared navigate on their own around public transport systems. This has been trialled in Bucharest on...
View Article‘Secure enough’ mobile ticketing
We’ve been working with ITSO on how to implement ‘ITSO with HCE’ since January 2015. In January 2016 we presented at Transport Ticketing in London about the work that we had done to date and this was...
View ArticleODA is a good thing, and not only for transit operators (are you listening USA?)
Following the success of Transport for London’s (TfL) Contactless Payments program, a project Consult Hyperion have contributed to since 2008, transportation agencies around the world are following...
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Account-based ticketing workshops
We’ve been having a lot of fun in recent months leading workshops for transport operators about account-based ticketing. Sharing our recent experience with clients such as the UK’s Transport for London...
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