Public Transport Automatic Fare Collection Interoperability Assessing Options for Poland
In the second half of 2013, the World Bank secured grant funding from the Korea Green Growth Partnership for analytical support and technical assistance related to sustainable urban transport systems in select cities in Eastern Poland. Polish citie...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26584052/public-transport-automatic-fare-collection-interoperability-assessing-options-poland http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24931 |
| Summary: | In the second half of 2013, the World
Bank secured grant funding from the Korea Green Growth
Partnership for analytical support and technical assistance
related to sustainable urban transport systems in select
cities in Eastern Poland. Polish cities have followed
international practice in introducing public transport
smartcard ticketing that offers convenience to the passenger
and savings to the operator through reduced fraud, shorter
dwell times at stops, and less cash handling. Smartcards
also offer more flexibility in setting and varying
fares.However, one of the main benefits of smartcard
ticketing internationally is in relation to integrating
fares and ticketing across operators and modes.There is no
overall direction as to what these automated fare collection
(AFC) systems will provide, and there is limited levels of
interoperability across the public transport networks and
the rail network, which makes travelling across the country
difficult. Going forward, Poland needs to consider the
benefits that an integrated approach to public transport
ticketing could deliver and agree a vision for delivering
these benefits. This potential benefit has not been realized
in Poland and little effort has been made to establish a
common platform for ticketing, even within metropolitan
areas.This Report focuses on options for introducing public
transport automatic fare collection interoperability in
Poland, building on the experience of other countries and
taking into account recent changes in technology.Based on
its review of the current situation in Poland and European
experience with the introduction of AFC standards, the World
Bank makes the following five recommendations: i) Establish
a technical working group to develop a vision for AFC in
Poland. ii) Support bank card, smartphone apps, and new
technology developments and determine what is achievable
over the medium-term in terms of interoperability. iii)
Develop bank card specifications. iv) Do not develop a
Polish AFC standard. v)Undertake a public transport fare
review. Establishing a national smartcard standard and
adopting it nationwide can be an expensive, complex, and
lengthy process—as evidenced by the experience in the UK—and
is not a ‘quick win’. Poland should consider innovative
solutions enabled by new technologies and not aim to
replicate approaches used in the UK or the Netherlands which
were developed at a time when the technological options were different. |
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