YTV reforms the Helsinki region Travel Card system
The electronic Travel Card system has been in use in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area since 2002. Presently, the Travel Card is used on the public transport of five municipalities. The same card is in use in all transport modes ? buses, commuter trains, trams, metro and Suomenlinna ferry. Over a million cards have been issued. Every day around one million passengers travel on public transport. The life cycle of a Travel Card system is 10-15 years. The metropolitan area is expanding all the time and new technologies enable more advanced systems. To answer future challenges the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council YTV has launched a project to transform the Travel Card system into a future generation system by 2014. The new ticket and information system will introduce new Travel Cards and a real-time passenger information system. Read more...
