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SMART CARDS : PUTTING FARE COLLECTION IN THE FAST LANE

Dominic Piperno

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This article gives an overview of the increasing use of smart cards for automatic fare collection. It describes the advantages of electronic smart cards over magnetic stripe cards. The multi- applications capability of smart cards is discussed, as is the potential future partnership between financial card issuers that use contact chips and the transit industry which favors the contactless technology.

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This article gives an overview of the increasing use of smart cards for automatic fare collection. It describes the advantages of electronic smart cards over magnetic stripe cards. The multi- applications capability of smart cards is discussed, as is the potential future partnership between financial card issuers that use contact chips and the transit industry which favors the contactless technology.

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This article gives an overview of the increasing use of smart cards for automatic fare collection. It describes the advantages of electronic smart cards over magnetic stripe cards. The multi- applications capability of smart cards is discussed, as is the potential future partnership between financial card issuers that use contact chips and the transit industry which favors the contactless technology.

Key concepts: Smart card, Contactless smart card, Issuer, Computer science, Transit (satellite), ATM card, Computer security, Telecommunications

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