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Projects and Examples of our Experience ITSO Implementation Projects: Nottinghamshire County Council: o Upgrading of the pre-existing legacy transport smartcard scheme including the procurement of a HOPS, ETMs and Personalisers; GMPTE o Procurement of an ITSO Transport Smartcard scheme; Yorcard (the PTE’s of West & South Yorkshire) o Procurement and implementation of the ITSO trial in Sheffield; o On going assistance with full scheme rollout; Northamptonshire County Council; o Procurement of ITSO compliant ETMs for Northamptonshire bus operators; Thamesdown Transport Ltd; o Procurement of ITSO compliant ETMs; GMPTE Metrolink Tram Ticket Vending Machine Procurement: o Procurement of replacement TVMs, including chip-and-PIN and transport smartcard capability; Recent ITSO Studies: South West England Smartcard group: o Development of the Business Case Model and report; Devon County Council: o A review of Smartcard Ticketing in the region. Analysis of the benefits and an estimate of costs and timescales for a Smartcard Ticketing scheme; Cornwall County Council: o An analysis of the benefits and an estimate of costs and timescales for a Smartcard Ticketing scheme; Other Smartcard Project Examples: Bournemouth Transport Ltd (Yellowbus): o Procurement and installation of smartcard enabled ETMs, together with a smartcard system; Nottinghamshire County Council: o We designed a common smartcard data format which 3 ETM suppliers and a printer/personaliser supplier adopted to provide the first interoperable transport smartcard scheme in the UK. This scheme, supporting concessions and scholars, has been operational for around 10 years and is currently being replaced by ITSO equipment; The Harrow Trial of contactless smartcards (1993-5): o Technical project management on behalf of a supplier of on-bus equipment; o A key trial by London Transport Buses which proved the technical capability and public acceptability of contactless smartcards in the transport environment; The Malaysian National Identity Card: o Technical consultant to the Malaysian Government; o A fully implemented and operational multi-application smartcard which includes national identity, drivers licence and transport applications; The Malaysian Touch ‘n Go Transport Smartcard: o Technical consultant to the Renong Group; o A fully implemented and operational multi-modal transport smartcard which supports e-purse, bus, metro and rail tickets, road tolling and car parking. PJ Associates involvement with ITSO: - Supported PTEG during the initial scoping work which led to the formation of ITSO; - Authored half of the ITSO specification; - Undertook a validation exercise on the ITSO Certification methodology and test scripts; - Peter Johnson is: o appointed as a founder ITSO Editor for specification drafting, and still fulfils this role today, providing support and advice to ITSO for maintenance of the specification; o a founder member of the ITSO technical committee; o represented a Local Authority on the working party which developed the ITSO Operating Licence into it’s current form; o is chair of an ITSO Licensed Operator Group (ILOG) working group on Hotlists and other customer related matters; - Tony Emery is chair of the ITSO Supplier Special Interest Group (SSIG). He attends working group meetings and is an ITSO Director (supplier sector). |
