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TfL acknowledges contactless technology risk
In article , (Mizter T) wrote:
On 26/06/2014 00:55, Paul Corfield wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:00:36 +0100, " wrote: What are the plans for expanding contactless into other cities or further afield on NR? I think the Rail Delivery Group are considering the technology but beyond that I don't know. I am not aware that any of the city regions are considering contactless bank cards - they're all struggling to get ITSO based schemes into service. FWIW, Merseyrail now accepts payments for paper tickets by contactless card: http://www.merseyrail.org/tickets-pa...ntactless-paym ent.aspx http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-24794486 http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/...rail-completes -deployment-of-contactless-ticket-payment-systems/ http://www.railtechnologymagazine.co...roduces-contac tless-payment The latter two articles make it clear that this is contactless payment being added as an option to ticket offices and to TVMs (initially at the former, with the latter following later) - so a much more conventional deployment of the technology compared to London. (I can see a quite delightful scope for confusion should TVMs and ticket offices in London start accepting contactless cards as a means of paying for conventional paper tickets!) The big gain is not having to visit a ticket office or ticket machine. e-Tickets and Print-at-Home do that too. If you've seen the ticket office/machine queues at Cambridge at times (Saturday morning is often worst) you'd see why such options are needed. -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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