Introduction of electronic card system in Lithuanian city passenger transport

Abstract

Based on the research, the current Lithuanian city passenger transport ticket system has not been changed for already several decades; therefore it has lots of drawbacks (inflexibility of ticket prices, no stored banks of data on carried passengers, no common tickets for all types of transport, etc.). Thus, this system cannot meet the increasing needs of the transport system administrator and the passengers. Consequently, a necessity to improve the city passenger transport ticket system has become inevitable. In 2006, the electronic card system in the biggest Lithuanian cities, for instance, in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipeda it has been planned to install. For this purpose the contact-less electronic cards are foreseen. Implementation of this project will cost about 60 million Litas (i.e., about 17,6 Euro). For the process of implementation of this project, also sources from different European Union funds will be used.