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With more than seven million tolling tags nearing the end of their life, delegates to
Rex Wright, chair of the Australian Toll Road Users’ Group, said the industry was potentially facing an AUD$100million bill over the next five years but the toll operators are committed to a unified national approach, consistent with the current interoperability. One potential solution put forward by
Delegates from Germany, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Thailand and USA attended the two-day conference in Sydney which covered patronage analysis and behaviour, emerging technologies, enforcement and compliance.
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New Alliance for smart ticketing
The Smart Ticketing Alliance (STA) is a new association set up to lead the drafting of a single specification for smart ticketing across Europe.
Originally set up by the national smart ticketing organisations of UK (ITSO), Germany and France plus the Calypso Network Association and International Association of Public Transport (UITP) it has now established a legal footing for its operation. John Verity of ITSO has been elected as the STA’s first chairperson and the UITP will host the alliance in Brussels and act as its secretariat.
Smartcard operators from 10 countries were represented at the official launch of the Alliance which aims to introduce Europe-wide standards and cross border acceptance for ticketing using NFC phones to facilitate the implementation and deployment of NFC-enabled devices. The Alliance has received endorsement from EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas and is setting up working groups looking at the contactless interface, NFC, certification and media security.
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Understanding emerging transport technologies
Delegates will hear the European perspective on Autonomous Vehicles from Dr Maxime Flament, head of Ertico’s SafeMobility sector. There will also be a special session to launch the Local Authority Guide to Emerging Transport Technology handbook which has been produced jointly by the two associations. The handbook aims to promote strategic thinking, help authorities deliver their local transport objectives more cheaply through the use of emerging technology while avoiding investment in technology that will be rapidly overtaken.
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Broadband rollout
As broadband infrastructure is being rapidly deployed across the country, Dr Paul Vorster fromErtico
