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Bus Operators Change to Thales
Auckland Transport said today, it was pleased to confirm Auckland’s bus consortium has advised its members will install Thales hardware on their bus fleets as...
Integrated Ticketing Saga
The site has recorded the long slow trek to Auckland getting integrated ticketing. Jon C recorded four years of debate about it which you can read by accessing...
First Test Of Real Integrated Ticketing
The Rugby World Cup will provide the first limited test of the real integrated ticketing, being created by international firm Thales. Auckland Transport will launch...
Integrated Ticketing For RWC2011
Auckland Transport this afternoon revealed that integrated ticketing system- one smart card - is on track for a stage one launch before the Rugby World Cup...
Integrated Ticketing Milestone
Moves towards national integrated public transport ticketing have taken a big step forward today with the development of a key agreement between the NZTA and ticketing...
Stand By For StupidCard
As Snapper edges towards an Auckland release, Arta must be working on options for what to call the new integrated ticketing being developed by Thales for release...
Name Auckland’s New Transport SmartCard
Now the integrated ticketing card is all go, it’s time to name the new card. See comments below. The latest suggestions are here Some cities have opted for...
Snapper Is Ticked Off
Wellington-based ticketing and payment system company, Snapper, is not hiding the fact tonight that it’s peeved off with today’s go-ahead contract...
ARTA Says Thales Superior & Cost Efficient To Snapper
ARTA, in signing the Thales deal for integrated ticketing this afternoon says this system is superior to that offered by Snapper, whose lobbying has been stepped...
Confirmed: Thales Deal Signed. Cost $47m
As predicted earlier in the day, the Thales deal on public transport integrated ticketing has been signed. Here are the key details: The capital cost of the project...
Phew! Integrated Ticketing Deal Sorted
The integrated ticketing saga will be done and dusted later today. The word on the street is that ARTA will sign the deal with French company Thales later this afternoon. As...
Govt Transport Agency Welcomes Snapper To Auckland
In the latest twist in the integrated ticketing saga, the government’s transport agency has welcomed the bombshell announcement that Snapper is heading off...
Integrated Ticket Bombshell: Snapper’s Onslaught Into Auckland
Infratil is upping the stakes in the integrated ticketing saga by revealing it’s going to steal the march on Thales, ARTA’s preferred supplier, and will go...
Lively Debate Continues: Infratil versus Thales
Back on Saturday morning, I mentioned how lobbying was intensifying once again to publicly call for Infratil’s Wellington-established Snapper card to get...
What Thales Can Bring Us (If We Have The Money!) -Videos
Dubai Metro's Thales cards known as NOl Dubai’s flash new Metro rail system gives us a glimpse of what Thales could bring us if we could afford it. The...
ARTA Can Now Celebrate
ARTA has breathed a sigh of relief that integrated ticketing is at last confirmed and to its chosen tender, Thales.- and it should take a bow for its great job on...
Confirmed: Integrated Ticketing Is Go With Thales
As you read here earlier today on this aucklandtrains blog, the long awaited integrated ticketing decision has finally been made and we can get on with it. And thankfully...
Getting Integrated Ticketing Right
The dangers of getting integrated ticketing in the hands of the wrong company are re-enforced with a weekend story in a West Australian paper about the sorry saga...
