Project Leader(s): Professor Phil Blythe
Sponsors: EU FP7 ICT Programme (ICT for Transport)
Partners: ITSO Limited (ITSO), TUV Rheinland Consulting GmbH (TUV), VDV Kernapplikations GmbH & Co-KG, International Association of Public Transport (UITP), PREDIM / Urba 2000 (URBA), Societe National des Chemins de fer France (SNCF), Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (UPONLD) , Regie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP)
External Website: http://www.ifm-project.eu/
Start/end dates: January 2008 to December 2010
Contact: phil.blythe@ncl.ac.uk
The IFM project brought together the three major public transport smart-ticketing schemes in Europe with the aim to make access to public transport networks more user-friendly by coalescing the schemes to fit the newly published European Standard for public transport ticketing. Moreover weaknesses in the standard regarding contractual interoperability, privacy, trust and security would be researched and a common European Approach tested and agreed. Newcastle University led on the privacy and trust elements of the research.
The primary objective of the “Interoperable Fare Management Project” (IFM Project) is to provide travellers with shared types of contact-less media throughout Europe. The major output of the project was the demonstration of seamless travel throughout Europe on a single smart card whereby the Calypso (France), ITSO (UK), and VDV (Germany) schemes demonstrated interoperable multi-application smart ticketing in international public transport use within all three systems.
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