Interoperable Fare Management Project

This project aims to make access to public transport networks more user-friendly by facilitating their accessibility. By 2015 smart ticketing systems will be compatible to ease access to all the users of public transport. The objective of the “Interoperable Fare Management Project” (IFM Project) is to provide travellers with shared types of contact-less media throughout Europe. These can be used for multiple transport products (“tickets”) in different geographic areas and for sustainable modal switching, such as the use of “Park and Ride”. Today, most media are restricted for use in specific networks.

The project is designed to provide world leadership in its segment and to deliver results which can be transferred to areas outside of the transportation sector world-wide. It will allow manufacturers and suppliers to offer the end-to-end, lossless nature of the IFM platform and transactions in other fields, thereby reducing time to market and lowering the cost of implementing other comparable schemes.

 

The project can be seen as the executive branch of the IFM initiative. In addition the IFM Forum serves as the consensus building and feedback branch of the IFM initiative. The IFM Forum will be composed according to the objective of consensus building in Europe. Therefore one of the major goals is the involvement of the maximum number of relevant organisations from EU member states, associated countries and candidate countries. Besides the IFM Project contractors, it will also comprise the associated partners.

The associated partners within the IFM Forum need to be relevant actors, such as:

•          further operators and application owners,

•          suppliers and industry as well as

•          commercial companies from sectors such as telecommunication,                    credit business, etc.

•          other bodies such as CLUB, KONTIKI and CNA.

 

If you are interested to participate in the IFM initiative please contact the project coordinator (compliance(at)itso.org.uk).

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Community Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The project is funded by DG INFSO under the IST Programme, ICT for Transport. Research activities of the unit ICT for Transport
Research activities of the unit ICT for Transport