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TICKETING
Simplifying Stockholm’s
transport ticketing
As ticketing becomes ever more complex,
offering an ever-greater range of products and
services, many would argue that this complexity
has filtered through to the simple act of choosing
and paying for their travel. Krister Dackland
from Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL) tells us
about the creation of SL’s new ticketing system,
one that aims to put ease of use at its core.
hen it comes to aim is to build a system that is easy our customers can buy using their
digitalisation, we to understand, easy to use and wallets, or their watch, and so on. There
have three key which provides the customers with will be different ways to carry tickets
focus areas: traffic multiple ways to buy tickets. There as well as different ways to buy tickets.
Winformation, data will be a contactless and close loop We are striving to make it as easy
analysis and ticketing. Naturally, these Storstockholms Lokaltrafik card based as possible to buy tickets and equally
three are all linked. You need to have on the same standards as the Aston easy to validate that ticket. In our new
all of them to develop the features that Norma, the bank cards. Then, of course, system, we have only one validator –
your customers require. there will be optical tickets such as QR one single reader.
When it comes to ticketing, our codes, and since we are EMV standard, Using EMV standard will bring the
advantage of lower implementation
costs. Equally, we will only need to buy
one validator, not two or three. And
naturally, maintenance costs will also
be lower. Most important, however,
is ease of use, and creating a system
that is very much user friendly for the
passengers.
The implementation of the new
systems is being done in an incremental
way. Naturally, the system will evolve
over the next two years, gaining
features over time. Built on the latest
technology, cloud technologies will
allow us to adapt it according to the
needs of the customers. It’s about
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