Calypso is an open, secure ticketing standard designed for transport operators, facilitating fast and secure contactless transactions via NFC technology across various media. It offers solutions tailored for cards, mobile devices, terminals, and interoperability, ensuring high-performance standards and evolving with mobility needs. The document highlights the impacts of post-COVID requirements on ticketing, emphasizing contactless, pay-as-you-go solutions to meet changing consumer behavior in public transport.

1. NFC services with
Calypso
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2. What is Calypso?
Calypso® is a proven, open, secure ticketing standard
It is designed by transport operators and authorities for transport operators and
authorities, to ensure long-term usability and sustainability
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Calypso specifies a
fast and secure
contactless ticketing
transaction,
based on NFC
technology,
supporting fast
throughput at
transport locations,
used across media, such
as smartphones,
wearable, plastic card or
paper tickets, …
suitable both for
media-based or ABT
schemes and ...
continually evolves
to support future
mobility needs and
adapt technologies.

3. Calypso worldwide
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4. CNA Members
Calypso is driven by a global network of members
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5. The Calypso solutions
Calypso’s solutions are based on a set of open specifications
and software tools available to all manufacturers, creating a
technically secure ‘baseline’ upon which stakeholders can
build.
• Calypso for cards – connect with readers in the same
manner, regardless of supplier
• Calypso for mobile – enable customers to order, buy and
validate tickets using a smartphone/watch
• Calypso for terminals – open source SDK, Eclipse Keyple,
supports security and interoperability
• Calypso for ABT – server-centric solutions that reduce
costs & enable MaaS integrations
• Calypso for interoperability – merge tickets to one
card/app via Hoplink to use across networks
• Calypso certification – independent guarantees that
Calypso performs to the highest standard
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6. Calypso for mobile
Dematerialisation is at the heart of the ticketing evolution:
Calypso open standards help deliver a set of solutions tailored to all mobile
environments via Secure Element and HCE for Android
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• For all NFC & Android smartphones
• An « only software » solution
• Based on the HCE-Calypso specification,
implemented by manufacturers
• Requires security countermeasures at the
system level
• Consequently requires some adaptations of
the system infrastructure
• For NFC smartphones with a Secure Element
• A "hardware & software” solution
• Based on the Calypso applet software delivered
free of charge by CNA to its members
• Strictly the same level of security as the Prime
card
• Requires no adaptation of the system
infrastructure

7. STPAY Tiger
v1.4
Supplier
Products
Chip
RF ISO 14443 B
Type
Cosmo Fly
v6.0
JCOP 3 PNxxx
SNxxx
eSE
UpTeq
eSE
SIM
Dragon Fly
SIM
PEARL
eSE
ISO 14443 A & B ISO 14443 A ISO 14443 A & B
Java Cards NFC / SWP eSE and SIM
JavaCard platforms with the Calypso applet

8. Calypso NFC deployments
Ile de
France
Strasbourg -
CTS
Toulouse -
Nice

9. Calypso NFC HCE deployments
Deployments
Nice,
Toulouse
Bologna- Emilia Romagna,
Venice,
Turin-Piemonte
Porto, Madeira

10. Post-Covid impacts on Public Transport
New behaviours and needs of citizens
• Home working increase
• A new balance between mass transit and
new mobilities : bike, scooters, walk, car
sharing, etc.
• Requirements for social distancing,
Ticketing must adapt
• Avoid queues at ticket gates and sales
• Propose adapted tarification
• Enables seamless travel
• Facilitate complementarity between mass
transit and individual means of transport
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11. The 3 pillars of post-covid ticketing
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Contactless NFC
Pay-as-you-Go
MaaS
• Ergonomy for the customer
• Speed of transaction: allows flows of passengers, optimize
commercial speed, avoid queues
• Security of the transaction
• Reliability and resistance to vandalism
• With home working, with alternative means of transport, flat-
fee subscriptions will less and less fit customers’ needs.
• They will require fares that reflect their actual use of public
transportation and enables seamless travel
• The sanitary crisis has been a booster for the new mobilities
(bike, scooters) : for example + 25% in the Paris region

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Thank you
Philippe Vappereau
Ticketing expert at RATP – CNA chairman
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