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ASK cards and tickets are being used by Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (GTT) and Società Italiana Traforo
Autostrade del Frejus (SITAF) to drive an innovative ticketing and fare collection system during the 20th
Winter Olympic Games.
GTT lead the project to provide a pioneering payment system in the Torino region using ASK’s TanGObased
CT4002 contactless smart cards and C.ticket® contactless paper tickets.
‘The card is compatible with the Calypso system of transport. Adopted by more than 40 cities in various
countries, Calypso is a practical standard, safe and in constant development representing the European
standard of mobility.”[3] [5]
Smart cards can be purchased at a number of locations around the city, including the A32 motorway
Service Centre at Avigliana, at the Sitaf-Susa information booth, at the A43 motorway toll barrier in Saint
Michel de Maurienne, and at the Portanova railway station and Caselle airport outside Turin. [7]
The card was available during the 2006 Olympics and Paraolympics, and offered a reduced rate for a
combination with the Torino Card (5 € less). [3] [4] [9]
The Torino Card, available for periods of 24 or 72 hours or 5 days, allows free access and discount to a
number of cultural facilities: (Free travel on all urban and suburban public transport, Free entry in more
than 140 museums, exhibitions, monuments, castles, fortresses and Royal Residences in Turin and
Piedmont, Free access to the TurismoBus Torino, to the panoramic lift in the Mole Antonelliana,to the
Sassi-Superga rack tramway and to the boats on the river Po, Discounts on guided tours, plays, concerts,
opera, car and bike rental and much more!) [8]
GTT manages the public transport networks in Torino and its suburbs. Whilst season ticket-holders tend
to use new GTT dual interface card, there are 4 different contactless paper tickets to meet the needs of
other users: a pass for school children, a multimodal pass, a pass for tourists and tickets to museums and
galleries. [1]
GTT issued five special new tickets on the occasion of the Olympic games, covering the entire area
involved in the Games, valid for different services. The tickets are equipped with magnetic band, hologram
and bilingual wording, and the graphic design, in line with the new GTT ticketing system in use since the
start-up of the new Underground, shows athletes in action in the different Olympic winter sports. [2]
SI-PASS is advertised on its own website as an ‘efficient instrument, a passe-partout opening doors in all
Europe in one movement’. [3]
The opening ceremony for the Torino2006 Winter Olympics in February declared a new era for urban
traffic schemes with the introduction of the world’s first integrated traffic Smart Card system. Oddvar
Solemsli, sales and marketing director for Q-Free said: “The Turin project to protect a historic city and to
keep traffic moving during the few weeks of the Olympic Games is considered as a flagship model of how
an integrated transport model can work. [7]
In a world first for contactless technology, ASK delivers a single contactless card for both public transport
and highway toll payments. [1]
The Olympic traffic challenge serves as a case study for the SIPASS system and, if evaluated
successfully, may pave the way for the expansion of the system.
Sources All visited 14 September 2006
1. ASK.com, producer of card ‘Torino 2006 on the Right Track With ASK Contactless Smart Card
Technology’ http://www.ask.fr/uk/news/news_article.php4?id=3
2. County of Torino where technology was implemented
http://www.comune.torino.it/gtt/en/olympicgames/tickets.shtml (visited 05 July 2006).
3. Homepage of SI-PASS device http://www.sipass.it/on-line/Sipass/Home/SIPASS.html
4. On Olympic Games organisation
http://www.kataweb.it/spec/articolo_speciale.jsp?ids=1251016&id=1251040
5. On transportation and Olympic Games organisation
http://www.radio.rai.it/cciss/view.cfm?Q_EV_ID=162476&Q_TIP_ID=328
6. RFID news Italy homepage http://www.rfidnews.it/news.asp?id=230
7. Q-Free website, Europe’s leading supplier of electronic toll collection (ETC) systems
http://www.intertraffic.com/marketplace/mypage/pressreleases_detail.asp?mypageid=1102&newsid=581
8. Turismo Torino on Torino Card http://www.turismotorino.org/uploads/4/1925_Torino_Card_2006.pdf
9. http://www.traspi.net/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=7467
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