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Integrated smartcard solutions: do people want one card for all their services?

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  • Evans
  • Amy W. Guo
  • Blythe
  • Burden

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Smartcard technologies offer the potential for bringing transport and citizen services onto a single smartcard platform -- referred to henceforth as an integrated ‘Transport-Citizen’ (TranCit) card. One question never fully addressed thus far is whether the general public see the integration of services onto a single card as desirable. Based upon research undertaken through the Yorcard project trials, this paper presents the analysis of a series of three focus groups and responses to a public questionnaire which investigated the general desire for multi-application, integrated smartcards. Our findings suggest there is potential for an integrated TranCit card, facilitating easier access to services and travel options across boundaries, even at the international level. A number of operational, technical and data security issues exist which need to be resolved before there would be a greater acceptance of an integrated TranCit card, from both the traveller and the service provider perspective.

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  • Evans & Amy W. Guo & Blythe & Burden, 2015. "Integrated smartcard solutions: do people want one card for all their services?," Transportation Planning and Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(5), pages 534-551, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:38:y:2015:i:5:p:534-551
    DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2015.1039233
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