Residents of the Indian city of Ahmedabad soon will be able to use contactless smart cards to pay their fares in the city’s bus and rapid-transit system, an official from the local transport authority Ahmedabad Janmarg Ltd. tells PaymentsSource.
“We have floated tenders for smart cards,” he adds, noting work on the project could begin “by the end of April.” The agency has invited vendors to submit bids.
The new contactless smart card will be a prepaid card, the official adds.
“The fare will be deducted from the total value of the card [when tapped] at the reader on the bus,” he adds. “The cards will come in denominations of 50 rupees to 500 rupees.”
“We had previously attempted to launch a smart card system with Mumbai-based tech vendor Kaizen Ltd., but their technology was inadaptable to our service,” he says without elaborating.
Kaizen provided the city of Mumbai with its Go Mumbai smart card consumers use to access that city’s bus and rail networks.
