The City of York Council is to launch a new
concessionary SMART travel scheme for disabled residents allowing
users to pay for taxi fares with a smartcard.
The York Taxicard is a secure smartcard
designed to replace transport tokens and is an alternative to the
National Bus Pass. The smartcard will be scanned at the beginning
and end of the journey and the subsidiary and fare is
simultaneously deducted from the overall allowance.
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The new system, which is designed and operated
by specialist smart media company Ecebs, uses ‘Smartcare’
technology and is designed to assist in fraud prevention, cut down
on administration and provide a future-proof pathway for additional
smart services.
“Smart services save costs, are more secure
and make life easier for users – and New York is at the forefront
of innovation with this scheme,” said David Burdett, managing
director of Ecebs.
One advantage of the scheme is that
flexibility of the technology that will allow for future
development without users having to change their cards. The cards
are also unique to the individual and so are resistant to fraud.
The initial roll-out of this scheme will
involve the distribution of 2,500 Ecebs Pearl smartcards, 100
mobile readers to the two participating taxi operators as well as
training and on-going support.
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