Public transport and ticketing in Europe

Using bus, rail and train with one ticket? This is standard in Germany, but a rarity abroad. There are also only a handful of countries where access to public transport is free of barriers and gates. Electronic ticketing, on the other hand, is also widespread in other European countries:
In the Netherlands, for example, the five largest transport companies founded the company Trans Link Systems in 2002 and introduced the electronic ticket OV-chipkaart. The career of the Oystercard also began in London in 2002, when the chip card was distributed to 80,000 employees of the transport company "Transport for London" on a trial basis. Since 2003, the Oystercard has been available to everyone as a season ticket (weekly and monthly tickets) and as a prepaid card for single journeys with billing based on the best price principle.

Because we are convinced that interoperability begins on our own doorstep and should not end at national borders, we work closely with our partners in neighbouring European countries. These are the Agence de l'Innovation pour les Transports (AIT), which belongs to the French government, the Belgian Calypso Network Association, the British ITSO and, of course, the International Association of Public Transport (UITP).