ITSO Ltd
The Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation (ITSO) was founded in 1998 as a result of discussions between various UK Passenger Transport Authorities concerning the lack of suitable standards for inter-operable smartcard ticketing. These discussions grew to include other authorities, transport operators and Government.
The primary use of smartcards in transport has been for the recording of concessionary passenger use and authentication. The largest commercial based scheme is Transport for London, who are marketing their smartcards as Oyster. Unfortunately, Oyster is not compatible with the ITSO Specification.
The Scottish Executive is commisioning the first large scale implementation of ITSO.
ITSO Members
The ITSO Member List includes most of the major bus operators, ticket issuing system vendors and Passenger Transport Executives.
ITSO Members (and links to their websites) include:
- Almex Information Systems - Ticketing System Vendor
- Applied Card Technologies
- Arriva - Bus, Coach and Train Operator
- Ascom UK Ltd - Ticketing System Vendor
- Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC)
- ATOS Origin - Ticketing System Vendor
- Bemrose Booth - Ticket Stock Supplier
- BT - Telecommunications Company
- Centro - West Midlands PTE
- Cubic - Ticketing System and Automatic Ticket Gate Vendor
- Department for Transport
- ERG - Ticketing Systems and Automatic Fare Collection Vendor
- First Group - Bus and Train Operator
- Greater Manchester PTE
- Go-Ahead Group - Bus and Train Operator
- National Express Group - Bus, Coach and Train Operator
- Stagecoach Group - Bus, Coach and Train Operator
The above is not an exhaustive list by any means. A full list of members can be found on the ITSO website.
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