Delhi-Meerut RRTS to go contactless; to have automatic fare collection system, QR code tickets for commuters

With the AFC system, the contactless method of entry and exit might be seamless, comfy, simple and fast.

Delhi-Meerut RRTS hall, the nation’s first Regional Speedy Transit System, could have an automated fare assortment (AFC) system in addition to QR code tickets for passengers. The Nationwide Capital Area Transport Company (NCRTC) lately said that it has invited bids beneath the Modi authorities’s ‘Make In India’ tips in procuring the AFC system. With the AFC system, the contactless method of entry and exit might be seamless, comfy, simple and fast. Passengers may even have the choice to make use of QR code tickets which may be digitally generated on an NCRTC web site or cell utility. The system might be much like Delhi Metro’s token system, the place commuters for a single journey between two stations, will have the ability to purchase paper QR tickets from ticket merchandising machines, in line with a PTI report.

The Delhi-Meerut RRTS hall may even permit “EMV (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) Open Loop contactless playing cards” which are primarily based on NCMC requirements for fee. RRTS Passengers will have the ability to use any of the NCMC playing cards issued by any Metro community or transport authority or monetary establishments in India. In line with NCRTC, the bid for the AFC system is predicated on Hybrid Annuity Mannequin. Underneath HAM, first, the system integrator might be recognized for set up actions and a monetary establishment might be chosen afterward for issuance in addition to buying providers. The company stated in different metro programs the place the procurement was executed via public-private partnership (PPP) mannequin, a consortium of system integrator in addition to monetary establishment used to conduct the work of set up of AFC system and playing cards’ issuance.

Furthermore, two ranges of AFC media validation might be applied by NCRTC- one on the concourse degree whereas the opposite on the platform degree. The AFC gates on the platform degree present entry to passengers to the manager lounge for boarding the enterprise class coach. On June 15, NCRTC had introduced that the company as a part of its vitality administration coverage, will make the most of clear vitality for the RRTS hall venture that can guarantee a discount in electrical energy expenditure in addition to considerably lesser CO2 emissions.