News: Smart ticketing for South Yorkshire
Passengers of public transport across South Yorkshire are set to benefit from smart ticketing after the region was named in a pilot project by the Department for Transport.
England's nine largest urban areas will receive £20m to bring smart and integrated ticketing to the greatest number of people most quickly through the Smart and Integrated Ticketing Strategy launched this week.
Smart tickets - a system where a ticket is stored on a microchip, on a smartcard (like London's Oyster Card) or even on a phone or bank card - can give improved journey times and faster, hassle-free purchasing and use of tickets, with associated benefits for local government and operators. The Government estimates that the benefits of "integrated smart" ticketing, that allows travel across operators and across modes, could be worth over £1 billion per year.
To incentivise bus operators to install smart ticketing systems, the Government has also announced an 8% increase in the Bus Service Operator Grant (BSOG) if they have ITSO smartcard infrastructure on their buses.
Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis said: "The benefits of smart ticketing to passengers are clear - quicker, easier and potentially better value journeys on trains, buses and trams, whichever company runs the service. We could even see the death of the paper ticket as direct payment and mobile phone technology picks up pace.
"Getting this technology on-board will help reduce congestion and pollution, improve the local environment, and help us, operators and local authorities provide the 21st century public transport network that we know people want."
DFT website
England's nine largest urban areas will receive £20m to bring smart and integrated ticketing to the greatest number of people most quickly through the Smart and Integrated Ticketing Strategy launched this week.
Smart tickets - a system where a ticket is stored on a microchip, on a smartcard (like London's Oyster Card) or even on a phone or bank card - can give improved journey times and faster, hassle-free purchasing and use of tickets, with associated benefits for local government and operators. The Government estimates that the benefits of "integrated smart" ticketing, that allows travel across operators and across modes, could be worth over £1 billion per year.
To incentivise bus operators to install smart ticketing systems, the Government has also announced an 8% increase in the Bus Service Operator Grant (BSOG) if they have ITSO smartcard infrastructure on their buses.
Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis said: "The benefits of smart ticketing to passengers are clear - quicker, easier and potentially better value journeys on trains, buses and trams, whichever company runs the service. We could even see the death of the paper ticket as direct payment and mobile phone technology picks up pace.
"Getting this technology on-board will help reduce congestion and pollution, improve the local environment, and help us, operators and local authorities provide the 21st century public transport network that we know people want."
DFT website
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