Standard and technological centrepiece: VDV core application and (((etiCORE

VDV core application (VDV-KA): This is the name of our open data and interface standard for electronic ticketing and electronic fare management (EFM) in public transport. The VDV-KA is the technological centrepiece of the electronic ticketing system (((eTicket Deutschland, on which the EFM systems introduced throughout Germany by transport associations and companies are based.
We are currently developing version 3 of the VDV core application. To ensure that international manufacturers of components and systems as well as transport companies abroad can also work with our open standard in future, the new version will also be published in English - and will have an international name: (((etiCORE

Function and expansion stages of the VDV core application

If you are a transport company working with the VDV-KA, you can decide for yourself which range of functions you want to use or offer your customers. The basis for this is a participation agreement, which primarily regulates organisational issues so that all connected systems can work together on an equal footing and automatically.

From a technological point of view, the respective user media (chip cards, NFC or RFID-enabled user media such as smartphones) of (((eTicket Deutschland support all existing expansion variants, even if only certain functions should be activated in the respective area of application.