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Brussels now enjoys contactless with ASK cards and tickets
Paris, Cartes show, November 13, 2007: STIB, the Société des Transports Intercommunaux
de Bruxelles, the largest Belgian urban public transport company launches MoBIB
teleticketing system based on ASK dual interface cards and C.ticket®, ASK contactless paper
ticket for multimodal traveling in the city. Innovative in its customer-oriented features,
MoBIB is an open-standard Calypso contactless smart card to be interoperable in the Europewide
Triangle project where the same card will link Brussels, Paris, London, Porto and
Funchal.
MoBIB: a multimodal and multiapplication medium
MoBIB is a multiapplication and multimodal contactless season ticket that
can be used on STIB network and soon on the other transportation
networks of the city. It can be reloaded with customized contracts in
various points of sales. Thanks to a flexible structure, the card can hold mass transit and
contracts related to other mobility activities or events. One single card provides Brussels’
inhabitants with access to transportation, museum, car park and later on car sharing services.
Memory space is reserved for new services to join in making Brussels a pioneer of seamless
and user-friendly contactless ticketing system.
Etienne Graindor, General delegate of the ticketing division at STIB declares “MoBIB
innovative feature lies in the possibility to load a contract at validators with the ePurse
functionality. People will be able to be on a “green list” and load contracts with bank
transfers. This paves the way to a payment and transport application on the same card.”
C.ticket® for museums, transport and bike rent
ASK C.ticket®, a contactless paper ticket is the elegant and cost effective
way to serve occasional users, foreign business men and tourists with the
same level of services as card holders. Brussels is also one of the first
European city to experiment self service bikes rental, JC Decaux service that has inspired
Paris Velib' project. And this ticket will allow occasional users to enjoy public transport
within the city and the suburbs in the coming years.
“Our technology based on a silver ink printed antenna on paper and die
attach chip has proven successful for more than 10 years now, says
Christophe Peix, Area Sales manager at ASK. Our products, all based on the
same process, are environment friendly; this is all the most important as environmental issues
become government and citizens real concerns. Paper is biodegradable and silver ink is
recycled through the ecological service we provide for used cards and tickets, he adds.”
Triangle: a European-wide project
In a world where mobility goes far beyond our countries’ frontiers, interoperability of public
transport has become part of a Europe-wide plan to facilitate citizen mobility in large capital
cities. The same contactless card could be used in Brussels, Paris, London, Porto or Funchal
public transport networks through shared applications. When travelling abroad in one of these
cities, the card holder loads a contract on his own card, for instance MoBIB will contain a
temporary "Carte Orange or Navigo pass" contract. Since it is paid locally to the local
operator, there is no need for a compensation system.
About ASK
Founded in 1997, ASK is today a worldwide leading supplier of contactless cards, tickets,
RFID tags, ePassport inlays and readers addressing the mass transit, access control, banking,
e-Identity and supply chain markets. More than 100 million contactless products are already
in service. ASK is a France-based company with worldwide customers and wholly-owned
subsidiaries in the US, Singapore and China.
Visit our booth at Cartes: 4L14
For more information: www.ask-rfid.com