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New ecological trends spreading in e-ticketing system

Calypso is the electronic ticketing standard which defines the secured dialogue between cards and terminal. It was developed by a group of European partners from the cities of Brussels in Belgium, Lisbon in Portugal, Konstanz in Germany, Paris in France and Venice in Italy . So Calypso is the electronic ticketing technology designed by Transit operators for Transit operators. After ten years of development program the smartcard contactless technology was created and adapted to the public transportation uses. Some functional choices such as contactless technology, fast, safe transaction (decentralised security), communication within the transaction time, flexible transport application to build system step-by-step, upgradable and respect for current standards, microprocessor, contact and contactless interface or contactless interface, etc. have been taken into account to answer the transit operators' needs. The Calypso founders and users established Calypso Networks Association, a non for profit organisation by European research program with objective to maintain a set of specifications addressing transit business needs in the context of developing contactless systems. Calypso technology is a set of technical specifications describing a fast and secure contactless transaction between a terminal and a portable device. A Calypso portable device was historically a microprocessor smart card. As technology moves on, now it could be JAVA contactless cards, mobile phones, USB key with a contactless communication interface (smart key) and any other ecological friendly contactless customer media as well. The paper presents Calypso electronic ticketing technology as a contactless standard for a modern transport and new trends in electronic ticketing system.

Calypso technology; eTicketing; contactless card

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