September 07, 2006
Chinese Railway To Use Contactless Tickets
The Guangshen Railway Company in China has contracted [RFID News] Confidex to supply 125 million RFID-enabled contactless tickets for railway passengers. This is considered to be one of the largest single orders for RFID tags ever, for transit use or otherwise. This system does not use the tags produced by the Chinese company Hyan Microelectronics in partnership with American company Paralec.
Other recent contactless transit projects include one in Poland, which the city of Warsaw awarded to a subsidiary of OTI Global. In Paris, a contactless payment trial began earlier this year which allows commuters to pay transit fares using their RFID-enabled cell phones. A similar phone-based transit payment trial is taking place in Korea.
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