By Luiz Guimaraes, Latin American Sub-Working Group Chair at OSPT Alliance. Governments and associated bodies are required to make a whole host of ID solutions. Driver’s licences, transport cards, employee access control, health services, library cards – the list goes on. Not to mention the increasing desire for multi-application solutions, combining two or more of…
Category: CIPURSE
What is CIPURSE?
Jean-Philippe Wolyniec, Marketing Working Group Chair at OSPT Alliance and Sales Director at FIME, and Myung-Hwa Calais, Director of Transport Unit at FIME. As services across transport ticketing, payment, loyalty and more increasingly converge, mobility service stakeholders are presented with a number of new opportunities to deliver better services, form partnerships and enhance revenues. But…
Considering Account-Based Ticketing? Here’s 5 things you should know…
Myung-Hwa Calais, Director of Transport Unit at FIME. Account-based ticketing, or ABT, is high on the transport industry’s agenda. It offers travelers choice and flexibility in the fare media they use – whether that be a smartphone, wearable, smartcard, a bank card… or a combination. Plus, with data hosted remotely, operators can realize several operational…
OSPT gathers momentum in Latin America as CEITEC joins as Full Member
OSPT Alliance, the global community enabling the future of mobility services, today announced it has welcomed Brazilian semiconductor company, CEITEC, as a Full Member. With deployments of OSPT Alliance’s CIPURSE™ Specification rising across Latin America, CEITEC will offer invaluable on-the-ground support as the first chip-manufacturer in the region to join the organization. Government-owned, CEITEC…
Travelers to consumers: Reflecting on this year’s Transport Ticketing Global
By Philippe Martineau, OSPT Alliance President of the Board. With the world’s largest public transport gathering, Transport Ticketing Global, over for another year and our feet firmly in 2019, it seems apt to reflect on the changing global vision set at this year’s event for the future of public transport. Or perhaps more accurately, its…
OSPT Alliance Certifies Three New Products to its CIPURSE™ Specification
Austria Card and Infineon Technologies are the latest companies to have products receive CIPURSE Certification, demonstrating adherence to the non-proprietary, CIPURSE™ Specification from global association, OSPT Alliance. A total of 20 products from eight companies worldwide are now CIPURSE certified. The CIPURSE certification program provides mobility services stakeholders with confidence that the products they choose…
exceet Card expands banking business with SECORA™ Pay from Infineon
exceet Card AG is further strengthening its portfolio with SECORA™ Pay security solutions from Infineon Technologies AG. Card manufacturers can easily integrate them thanks to the combination of dual interface chip technology with the award-winning Coil-on-Module (CoM) packages. These also make the card more robust and reliable. “SECORA Pay provides us with certified EMV* solutions…
CIPURSE electronic ticket solutions simplify daily commute in Russian cities
Scalable CIPURSE™ based electronic fare collection systems are now being implemented in Russia by Infineon Technologies AG and Udobny Marshrut, LLC (UM). UM has started roll-out in Izhevsk and Angarsk; seven other metropolitan regions are planned to follow by end of 2016. In the end, a total of two million people are expected to benefit…