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Chapter 1<br />
On Rejsekortet<br />
Rejsekortet (“the travel card”) is a new system for the Danish network of public<br />
transportation. It is meant to completely replace paper tickets sometime in 2011,<br />
and the project has been in the works since 1995 1 , and has at the time of writing<br />
cost more than a billion Danish kroner 2 .<br />
The card works as a check-in/check-out system in the sense that one “checks<br />
in” while entering e.g. a bus and “checks out” leaving it. The system then<br />
calculates the fare and draws the amount from the card. Moreover the card<br />
supports various degrees of discount, interoperability across borders, and much<br />
more.<br />
The initial specifications were presented by a Swedish company called Resekortsföreningen<br />
(RKF), in order to establish a common standard of travel cards in<br />
Scandinavia. Different public transit organizations could then choose to implement<br />
this new standard, and expect the cards to work seamlessly with the other<br />
systems. Currently, Sweden is the only country to have a travel card using this<br />
standard in production.<br />
1 http://vtu.dk/filer/publikationer/1998/rapport-fra-arbejdsgruppen-om-kortteknologi-oghandicappede/html/dok10.html<br />
2 http://www.business.dk/transport/barsk-kritik-af-nyt-rejsekort-system
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