Zbornik radova Koridor 10 - Kirilo Savić

3rd International Scientific and Professional Conference
CORRIDOR 10 - a sustainable way of integrations
interests of partners and business agreements between them. A weak point of this approach is small
progress steps: the only advantage the passengers get is a single card. Additionally, the final
implementation costs are expected to be higher comparing to the second case (possibility).
In the second case the user can use his ticket on all buses and trains at any operator. Implementation
of this system is primarily matter of a management and organization project that requests longer
implementation time. An indispensable precondition for implementation is a concluded business
agreement between all the subjects in the public transport (managing organizations, operators, local
communities, government, etc.) regarding unique tariff system, common products, clearing, etc. This
process can be very hard and time consuming on account of presumably many iterations. It is
important to point out a risk of the whole interoperable ticketing system project failure in case the
business agreement cannot be achieved.
The question is: what is the best way to take in Slovenia with respect to the current situation. If the
integrated public transport is long term goal it should undergo step by step implementation. The most
feasible solution is to take the first step in unification by migration to MIFARE DesFire technology on
regional bus service integration. The Ministry of Transportation as a managing authority for 39
operators should lay down a unique tariff system, common products and processes in life cycle of
each product and clearing. While at the moment just two technology providers provide ticketing
systems to regional bus operators only this two systems must be adapted to the new model based on
EN 15320 standard. This partial approach is the simplest and can be regarded as learning process for
the future steps when other modes and operators are to be involved.
Integration of regional bus service should be followed by integration of public railway transport where a
single manager, single operator and one technology provider (already involved in support of regional
bus service) don’t make a substantial problem.
City transport is proposed to further remain independent in the framework of municipality
management. A care should be taken with implementation of unified ticketing system on a regional
level in order for the common Slovenian products to be operable also on city buses. Normally this
requires new business agreements regarding clearing and needed upgrade of existing city ticketing
systems to accept common products. The agreements of the state with city transport seem to be a
challenging work to do in the future.
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