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Public Transport Body Setransp Joins OSPT Alliance to Drive Delivery of Multi-Application Services
July 2015 by Marc Jacob
OSPT™ Alliance, the international association which provides an open standard for secure transit fare collection solutions, has welcomed Setransp, a union of public transport operators based in the Brazilian city of Goiania, as an Associate Member.
Setransp is responsible for transit fare collection for the city’s network service known as the Rede Metropolitana de Transporte Coletivo (RMTC). Its pioneering Sitpass automated fare collection (AFC) system has been in operation since 1998 and is now active in 1,400 buses across the region and has 1.1 million users.
The body is currently evaluating a migration to the CIPURSE™ standard, to facilitate integration between public transport and wider digital ecosystems, such as fare collection and payment; payment and loyalty; fare collection and security; and many others. The CIPURSE open standard, developed by OSPT Alliance, offers an advanced foundation for establishing these kinds of interoperable fare collection systems.
