Transportation Council

The Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council is focused on promoting the adoption of interoperable contactless smart card payment systems for transit and other transportation services. Formed in association with the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), the Council is engaged in projects that support applications of smart card use. The overall goal of the Transportation Council is to help accelerate the deployment of standards-based smart card payment programs within the transportation industry.

Initial Transportation Council projects support the advancement of transit fare collection systems and explore linkages between transit payment systems and smart card programs in the tolling, parking and financial industries. The Council also plans to investigate how transportation payment systems and credentialing systems can be linked through the use of multi-application smart card technology.

Council Resources

• Transit Payment System Security, Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council white paper, August 2008

• Serving Unbanked Consumers in the Transit Industry with Prepaid Cards, Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council white paper, June 2008

• Co-Branded Multi-Application Contactless Cards for Transit and Financial Payment, Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council white paper, February 2008

• Smart Cards and Parking, Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council white paper, January 2006

• Transit and Contactless Financial Payment: New Opportunities for Collaboration and Convergence, Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council white paper, October 2006

• Transit and Retail Payment: Opportunities for Collaboration and Convergence, Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council white paper, October 2003

• Transportation Council web briefing presentation. This presentation provides an overview of the use of smart cards in transit in the U.S., presents a summary of the Transportation Council’s goals, objectives and organization and describes the Council’s initial projects.

Council Management

2008 Transportation Council officers are:

• Chair - Paul Korczak, MTA/New York City Transit

• Vice chair, transit - Craig Roberts, Utah Transit Authority

• Vice chair, parking - Tom Wunk, Scheidt & Bachmann

• Vice chair, tolling - Ernest Tollerson, MTA

The Council is managed by a steering committee that includes a broad spectrum of leaders from the transportation, financial services and smart card industries, such as APTA, systems integrators, consultancies and technology firms. Current steering committee members include: ACS, American Express, APTA, Cubic, ERG Group, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, MasterCard Worldwide, MTA New York City Transit, Scheidt & Bachmann, Thales, Utah Transit Authority, U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

Council Membership

The Transportation Council is open to participation from vendors and transit organizations that join the Alliance and the Council.

• Transportation Council Guiding Principles

Smart Card Alliance members who are participating in the Transportation Council include:

• ACI Worldwide
• ACS
• APTA
• ASK Contactless
• ASSA ABLOY ITG
• American Express
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• CardLogix
• Chase Card Services
• Citi
• City of Phoenix, Public Transit Department
• Collis America
• CoreStreet
• Cubic Transportation Systems
• Digital Identification Solutions
• Discover Network
• ERG Transit Systems
• First Data Corporation
• Gemalto
• Giesecke & Devrient
• IBM
• INSIDE Contactless
• Identification Technology Partners, Inc.
• Infineon Technologies
• JC Simonetti Assoc., Inc.
• Keycorp
• LEGIC Identsystems
• Link2Gov, a Metavante company
• METRO - SORTA
• MTA Bridges & Tunnels
• MTA New York City Transit
• Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
• MasterCard Worldwide
• Metrolinx
• Metropolitan Transportation Commission
• NJ Transit
• NXP
• OTI America
• Oberthur Card Systems
• Parkeon
• Port Authority of NY/NJ
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Scheidt-Bachmann
• Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
• Texas Instruments
• Thales Transportation Services
• TransitCenter
• Transport for London
• TriMet
• U.S. Department of Transportation/Volpe Center
• USA Technologies
• Utah Transit Authority
• Venyon
• VeriFone
• ViVOtech
• Visa USA
• Washington Metropolitan Transportation Authority

For more information about the Transportation Council or for more information on becoming a member of the Alliance, please contact the Alliance office via email at info@smartcardalliance.org or via telephone at (800) 556-6828.