1. Touch&Travel –
NFC as enabler for automatic fare collection
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Project Touch&travel
October 2009
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2. The existing ticketing portfolio will continue to expand over
the next years
User medium Example
Secure paper Ticket bought in a ticket offic
Estab-
lished
in
"Buy before" Standard paper Ticket bought via WWW Ger-
many
Smartcard,
Ticket bought via mobile
User mobile phone
phone
authentication (electronic)
New
Smartcard,
CheckIn/CheckOut with
"Pay-as-you-go" mobile phone
monthly billing
(electronic)
Focus
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3. Summary:
Touch&Travel – mobile phones turn into tickets
Touch&Travel
Simple and flexible access to public
transport
Unlimited travel across different means of
transport and in various transport
associations
Selection of tariff respectively purchase of a
ticket in advance is unnecessary
High customer comfort - everything is
integrated in the customer’s mobile phone
Low infrastructure costs: check-in and
check-out points (Touchpoints) work without
energy supply and data is transmitted
through the mobile phone network
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4. eTicketing has to fulfil fundamental requirements – low
infrastructure costs speak in favor of mobile phones
Premises
Mobile phone ticketing can
High customer acceptance fundamentally satisfy the conditions
Simple usage High comfort level thanks to use of
multifunctional devices
Cost effectiveness
Technology requires further
Suitable for mass use development and testing
Broad adaptability of the
solution to local and regional
public transport, long-distance
connections and additional Mature technology
mobility benefits, e.g. time Internationally successful
schedule or trip planning contactless approaches can not be transferred
smartcard to Germany*)
One standard in Germany/
compatibility within Europa High costs for infrastructure make
Security/ verifiability nation-wide systems inefficient
*) Those approaches are usually implemented in urban areas and within gating structures – Germany in contrast to that is a very heterogeneous country with open
passenger traffic systems
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5. The idea: mobile phone as ticket – hop on board…
1 2 3
Access via
Register Start journey
mobile phone
Touch&Travel
Check-in succesful:
Potsdam
Schloss Sanssouci
2.Kl. BC 25 2.Kl
Have a nice trip!
OK
NFC – mobile phone Initial registration Check-in before journey
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6. …and off you go
3 4 5
Control in bus or train End of journey Mobility invoice
MUSTER
Touch&Travel
Check-out successful:
Wolfsburg Hbf
2.Kl. BC 25 2.Kl
Preis: 36,20 €
Goodbye!
OK
Easy ticket verification Check-out after journey Invoice of all journeys
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7. Touch&Travel uses mobile telecommunication networks for data
transmission
Touch&Travel infrastructure and data transmission
■ Touchpoints do not need a
■ The mobile phone assumes
direct connection to the
the active part and reads the
backend system
identification number of the
■ No power supply and touchpoint via the NFC
communication connection interface
necessary
■ Check-in and check-out data
■ Localisation of Touchpoints transmission through an
through integrated simple existing infrastructure – the
radio chips with a unique mobile phone network
identification number (ID)
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8. Safe and cost-efficient ticket inspection
1. Customer shows his activated mobile phone
Long distance 2. Ticket inspector checks the ticket with a mobile control
and regional device (e.g. German Railway‘s „MT2“). A control data set
transport is stored on the mobile phone and later transmitted to the
services background system MT2
3. Touch&Travel can be controlled with any ISO certified
control device
1. Customer shows his activated mobile phone
2. Ticket inspector holds his control card close
to the activated mobile phone Touch&Travel
Local public 3. Within a second a control number (known only active
transport by the ticket inspector) will be shown on the Control no.
9751
services mobile phone‘s display
4. Verification has been successful if the correct
control number is shown on the display
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9. Touch&Travel and the core application (KA) of the
Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen (VDV)
Touch&Travel is a VDV core application compliant mobile
phone ticketing approach
KA medium
■ Touch&Travel is compliant with the German eTicketing
standard VDV core application (VDV Kernapplikation)
■ All transactions (personalisation, issuing, logging,
inspection) are processed according to the KA
specification with all required cryptographic methods
(including certificates)
■ Season tickets and other special tickets can easily be
integrated in the Touch&Travel system by secure
deposition on the SIM card. Ticket inspection will be
handled the same way as for smart card based systems.
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10. Touch&Travel will be tested in two pilot phases
200 trial customers tested Touch&Travel
intensively (Feb to Aug 2008)
1st Phase Ticket inspection included check of both
the paper ticket and the Touch&Travel
ticket
2.500 trial customers will be testing
Touch&Travel (started Dec 2008)
Touch&Travel is recognised as a
2nd Phase ticket. Regular operation is simulated,
including settlement of accounts
The project network is joined by T-
Mobile Germany
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11. In pilot phase 2 the pilot region in Berlin is extended
Pilot region 2009
GVH VRB VBB
Region Region Region Berlin-
Hannover Braunschweig Brandenburg
NEW
metronom NEW Märkische Regiobahn, ODEG, PEG, NEW
between Hannover Hbf and Hannover fair/Laatzen containing selected connections within VBB
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12. Moreover, the pilot region will be further extended in 2010
Pilot region 2010
DB ML AG, Touch&Travel Stand Okt.2009
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13. Spontaneous customer statements
Simplicity:
Uncomplicated:
„At the beginning of the
„Everything is very
journey you do a short
convenient. I don‘t have to
check-in and at the end a
purchase a ticket, need no
check-out. Calculation is
cash and I am saving
automatic.“
waiting time.“
Innovation: Touch&Travel Speed:
„The mobile phone is a „It‘s an electronic ticket for
„one for all“ device, cashless travelling; no
ticketless, no risk to lose vending machine, no
the ticket.“ counter, no waiting time –
simply ready to go.“
Automation/Technology:
„The system calculates the
route and the price on its
own and shows me this
information in the end.“
Source: TNS Infratest
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14. The project partners
Touch & Travel ist ein Projekt von …
… in Kooperation mit …
… und den Technologiepartnern …
DB ML AG, Touch&Travel Stand Okt.2009
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