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. 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.

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.

• Download description of Council mission, activities and membership

Council Resources

• Transit Open Payments Resources, providing information on transit agency implementations, pilots and planned procurements of contactless open payments-based fare collection systems.

• Smart.Transit LinkedIn Group, open to Smart Card Alliance member and public transit agencies to stimulate discussion of transit payments-related topics.

• Transit and Contactless Open Payments: An Emerging Approach for Fare Collection, Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council white paper, November 2011

• A Guide to Prepaid Cards for Transit Agencies, Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council white paper, February 2011

• Expert Series Videos: Mobile/NFC Payments, Transit and Open Bank Card Payments

• Planning for New Fare Payment and Collection Systems: Cost Considerations and Procurement Guidelines, Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council white paper and Excel cost model, March 2010

• 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

• 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

2010 Transportation Council officers are:

• Chair - Craig Roberts, Utah Transit Authority
• Vice chair, transit - Gerald Kane, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)
• Vice chair, transit - Mike Nash, ACS, A Xerox Company

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:

• Dave Blue, Cubic
• Michael DeVitto, MTA NYC Transit
• Mike Dinning, U.S. Dept. of Transportation/Volpe Center
• Margaret Free, Giesecke & Devrient
• Greg Garback, WMATA
• Linh Huynh, INSIDE Secure
• Mike Meringer, VeriFone
• Bob Merkert, Identive Group
• Eric Reese, Chicago Transit Authority
• Martin Schroeder, APTA
• Brian Stein, Accenture
• Faye Surrette, MasterCard Worldwide
• Sandy Thaw, Visa

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

The Smart Card Alliance recognizes the top three individual contributors in each of the industry councils and the council “honor roll” – the individuals who were leading contributors and participants in the council projects and activities.

• 2011 Council Honor Roll
• 2010 Council Honor Roll

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

• AB Note Group
• Accenture
• ACS, A Xerox Company
• Acumen
• American Express
• APTA
• Ashok Joshi
• ASSA ABLOY ITG
• Bell Identification B.V.
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Capgemini
• Castles Technology, Co., Ltd.
• Chase Card Services
• Chicago Transit Authority
• Collis America
• Connexem Consulting
• Consult Hyperion
• CSC
• Cubic Transportation Systems
• Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)
• Deloitte
• DeviceFidelity, Inc.
• Discover Financial Services
• Double Diamond Group
• epay North America
• FIME
• First Data Corporation
• Gemalto
• Giesecke & Devrient
• Heartland Payment Systems
• HID Global
• HP Enterprise Services
• Identive Group
• IDmachines
• Infineon Technologies
• INSIDE Secure
• JC Simonetti Assoc., Inc.
• Lenel Systems International
• LF Consulting
• LoyaltyOne, Inc.
• LTK Engineering Services
• Metropolitan Transportation Commission
• MTA New York City Transit
• NXP Semiconductors
• Oberthur Technologies
• OTI America
• Parkeon
• Port Authority of NY/NJ
• Probaris, Inc.
• Quadagno & Associates, Inc.
• Ready Credit Corporation
• Regional Transportation Authority
• Scheidt & Bachmann
• Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)
• Thales e-Security
• Thales Transportation Services
• TransitCenter
• U.S. Department of Transportation/Volpe Center
• Utah Transit Authority
• VeriFone
• Visa Inc.
• ViVOtech
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)

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.