Zbornik radova Koridor 10 - Kirilo SaviÄ
Zbornik radova Koridor 10 - Kirilo SaviÄ
Zbornik radova Koridor 10 - Kirilo SaviÄ
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3rd International Scientific and Professional Conference<br />
CORRIDOR <strong>10</strong> - a sustainable way of integrations<br />
7. IMPLEMENTATION ANALYSIS OF TICKETING SYSTEM<br />
Before analysis of country wide use of an interoperable electronic ticket other implementations of<br />
country ticketing system were considered. Scattered population settlement with small urban centres<br />
and many isolated hilly regions don’t allow implementation of a mass transit ticketing conception. To<br />
solve an imposing problem of sporadic passengers from remote areas with usually weak technology<br />
skills, also parallel use of paper-based or ultra-light tickets was examined.<br />
Use of parallel systems makes an impact to the overall ticketing costs. Use of ultra-light tickets (chippaper<br />
ticket like MIFARE Ultralight) allows good integration of sporadic passengers in the system.<br />
Ultra-light tickets permit transaction monitoring on the account of additional costs induced by<br />
maintenance of parallel systems and keeping selling post and ticket stock at the driver in the vehicle.<br />
Introduction of ultra-light tickets seems irrational also in terms of upcoming technologies like NFC and<br />
debit/credit cards that should cover single journey passengers.<br />
The logical solution is to keep the existing paper tickets to provide a soft transition and serve for the<br />
sporadic passengers without a plastic card. This system partially loses integration of transaction<br />
management but with incentives on chip card use the amount of paper ticket users is expected to be<br />
negligible low. Good attitude of users towards chip card was additionally proved in a public survey.<br />
Coming back to the standard electronic ticket, we are faced by two feasible options bearing quick and<br />
country-wide implementation. The first option is to extend one of the existing ticketing systems now<br />
scoping on a city use and footing on a custom designed solution. The second option refers to a<br />
completely new system that needs to be developed from the scratch, based on a national standard.<br />
An option with bank cards was ruled out as a single one since it excludes a population share without<br />
their own bank account (e.g. children). It is only regarded as a supporting solution in the future.<br />
Adoption of the existing ticketing system by one provider and its extension to the whole country is<br />
favourable for its quicker implementation but on the other hand entails a dependency on a single<br />
provider imposing its own standard and development pace. It also brings big problems (and costs) in<br />
integration of new ticketing systems with existing back-office systems of transport operators. Such a<br />
closed solution may result in long-term costs rise due to exercising of a monopoly status.<br />
Standardized electronic ticketing makes an optimal solution allowing competency of all providers on<br />
the market and thereby easier integration of new technologies, better control of operation,<br />
maintenance and development costs and impact on system adaptation. This solution induces higher<br />
costs in the implementation phase for more implementation steps to be made, but the aforementioned<br />
facts make it long-term highly sustainable in long-term phases of maintenance, adaptation and HW<br />
and SW development.<br />
Ticketing system implementation costs for a transition from the existing paper based ticketing to<br />
electronic ticketing are broken down in a table 4.<br />
SW/HW/certification Option 1 Option 2<br />
HW terminal equipment & electronic cards 1.651.600 1.651.600<br />
Terminals and back-office SW for transport operators 3.070.000 3.120.000<br />
Central transactions and clearing information system 900.000 900.000<br />
Implementation of a certification centre / 500.000<br />
Total 5.621.600 6.171.600<br />
Table 4: Breakdown of ticketing system implementation costs (in EUR) [1]<br />
The costs are based on assumption that the electronic ticketing technology adopted by public<br />
transport management is based on MIFARE DESFIRE card. The costs of HW terminal equipment<br />
(validation, purchase, mobile terminals, SAM modules) and electronic cards are the same in both<br />
options [25]. Operators’ back-office software needs to be upgraded and connected to the central<br />
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