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Shashi Verma Director of Fares and Ticketing Transport for London
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Oyster Business Case In the 1990s London Transport wanted: Congestion relief from increased gate throughput Fraud reduction from over-riding, lost and stolen passes, etc. Reduction in number of tickets sold
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Recent successes Oyster on national rail – Final stage launched on 2 Jan 2010 – Goal was to bring all national rail stations in London within Oyster pay as you go; extends benefits of PAYG to all of London – Added 250 stations to existing network – Total of 615 rail stations and 8,300 buses now on Oyster – Dramatic traffic build-up with 2m national rail journeys per week on Oyster pay as you go Oyster on Thames river boats – Launched in November 2009 – Rapidly built up 25% of river boat traffic on pay as you go
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Current challenges Despite the visible success of Oyster, ticketing still represents a difficult business model Need to think from first principles about models for revenue collection
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5 The future of money Contactless bankcard and mobile payment platforms finally seem to be appearing on the market
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EMV on transport Needs to be fast with transaction speeds under 500ms New transaction model for complex transport needs New security solution to comply with PCI-DSS New back-office to aggregate taps and compute fares... And new way for transport system to work
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Current state TfL Board approved project in autumn 2010 New readers being installed Back office in development in-house Security solution being developed Launch on buses before Olympics, rest of system later in 2012 System open to other transport operators
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Shashi Verma Director of Fares and Ticketing Transport for London
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