CTS (Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois), Vélhop and Citiz have partenered to bring the “Pass Mobilité” to the Strasbourg citizens in order to address their whole needs in urban mobility. Besides the CTS’ transport public offer, the “Pass Mobilité” includes a subscription to Vélhop’s bike-sharing and Citiz’ car-sharing services, as well as the access to bicycle parkings (véloparcs) and to the CTS’ car parks (Park & Ride).

This initiative aims to propose a comprehensive mobility service which favours public transportation while answering to specific [...]

 The French Ministry of Transports organized the Mobility 2.0 day at Versailles Satory on February the 11^th. Frédéric Cuvillier, the French Minister of transports as well as the main actors of intelligent mobility were present. That day has been the opportunity to announce several projects:

• French government plans to focus the actors of intelligent mobility and to encourage their collaboration in order to make France a worldwide leader
• A national multi-modal traveler information system allowing computing door to door trips is due in [...]

Since its creation, Nextendis has been supporting Vodafone NFC projects. We have especially actively contributed to the NFC GU-SIM design, setting up the SP Onboarding processes, to the Vodafone representation at the GSMA standardization working groups as well as defining and deploying the NFC Wallet platform.

The Vodafone wallet has been designed in order to allow service providers (banks, retailers, transport operators) to easily integrate it. This has been achieved by being the first in Europe implementing the GP Messaging standard.

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On June 17, in the presence of local authorities, "Caen la mer" opened its transport ticketing service on mobile phone.

The Twisto mobile application will now allow unfrequent travelers or subscribers, with an NFC phone:

- to purchase a fare product 24h/24, 7/7, directly from their mobile

- to validate in the buses and trams equipped with compatible NFC validators

- to check their balance of tickets or to follow their season ticket usage.

The Twisto application will also allow travelers to access all the necessary information while using the public [...]

On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, Nextendis launches its new website presenting its consultancy activities. With a new design and logo, more comprehensive contents, an extranet access for our clients and partners, our site has been rethought to give an easy and intuitive access to the information useful for the different categories of visitors.

 GlobalPlatform has made public its training program for 2013. These sessions will cover two main areas: card technologies and mobile contactless. Nextendis is delighted to inform you that, for the fourth consecutive year, its specialists will animate several training sessions. This renewed trust from GlobalPlatform is the consequence of Nextendis long term investment within this organization and provides the warranty to our customer to benefit from state of art expertise on this technology.

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AFIMB (French agency for multimodal information and fare management system services), an agency within the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Transport, has just published on its website the version 1.0 of the implementation specifications that set out the requirements related to the use of contactless communication protocol ISO/IEC 14443 to ensure interoperability between fare management system hardware and the multiple-form-factor contactless fare media (smartcards, e-tickets, mobile phones, USB keys, tablets, etc.).

"During discussions held in 2011 within the [...]

The paper aims at helping mobile operators and transport operators to deploy mobile NFC based solutions to improve the travel experience of customers across Europe. The highlighted benefits of this technology include: convenient ticket purchase through a mobile application without queuing; lower distribution costs; faster ticket validation; more interoperability across cities and borders as NFC handsets can support multiple ticketing standards; a comprehensive user experience by linking ticketing to geolocalized and timely delivered information.

The paper warns of the fragmentation [...]

Amongst the 29 answers, 17 projects have been shortlisted to share the 20 M€ funding of the national call for projects “deployment of NFC mobile contactless services”.

Nextendis is pleased to have contributed to the elaboration of the public transportation part of some of the 17 shortlisted answers and is already working on supporting operationally the NFC ticketing projects of shortlisted territories. The projects supported by Nextendis will quickly allow the inhabitants of these agglomerations to purchase and validate their transport fares directly from their mobile [...]