TELEPAY website
Objectives
TELEPAY will develop and assess an innovative payment system for transport services – such as public transport ticketing or tolling for motorways - using mobile phones. The system will be tested and validated in Berlin, Rome, Turku (Finland) and Paris Ile de France.
Public transport related services will be based on:
- SMS
- WAP technologies for ticketing and short range communication for access to closed network (e.g. opening barriers and/or turnstiles)
- ticket validation
- ticket control
A tolling application using short range communication interface will be tested on a French motorway.
The technical, legal and commercial feasibility of the system will be established. After conclusive tests, the cities of Berlin, Rome and Turku intend to extend the system to their entire transport networks.
TELEPAY aims to:
- Establish the technical, legal and commercial feasibility of a purchase and payment system for virtual "e-tickets" through mobile phones, using SMS, WAP and short range communication technologies
- Present a Europe-wide harmonised payment means for tolling applications
- Promote the adoption of wireless devices as a payment means for transport services
- Propose different test sites across Europe - including Berlin, Rome, Turku, Finland, and Paris Ile de France
- Test the access to closed transport systems (e.g. opening barriers and/or turnstiles) using short-range communication-based terminals
Approach
TELEPAY will first investigate the needs and requests from a user's point of view (end user, service provider, transport operator) and all actors involved. It will then identify system requirements and define a generic system architecture. Site-specific options will be chosen for the system definition. The system will be implemented and tested in four different sites: Berlin, Rome, Turku and Ile de France (southern Paris region). All sites will use the multi-modal public transport payment application. Ile de France will also test motorway tolling.
Taking into account the generic system architecture, a common technological (communication) platform based on SMS-WAP will be used in all sites. Each site will specify its particular application, implement and test it. In the case of closed systems, a short-range communication interface will be used to open the barriers/turnstiles. Short-range communication will also be used in certain sites for the validation of the e-ticket. Payment will be done through the telephone bill or using pre-paid SIM cards. In some cases, an additional financial card will be used.
After validation, the trial results will provide the elements for business plans. A dedicated work package will tackle the legal environment concerning electronic payment (back office operations and billing procedures) related to the mobile phone medium. It will also make proposals for model contracts to be agreed by the players involved. As a key objective, dissemination activities include a reference brochure, a regular newsletter, a major information conference, and various other publications.
Consortium
Public documents
Milestones & results
| December 2002 |
Full project results |
| November 2002 |
Model contracts |
| November 2002 |
Conference |
| September 2002 |
Trial results |
| March 2002 |
System common core architecture |
| December 2001 |
System requirements |
| October 2001 |
User needs analysis |
- The assessment of the technical and commercial feasibility of using mobile phones for the payment of transport services
- A comparison of the different approaches for payment using GSM demonstrated in the different TELEPAY test sites, including all important aspects such as technical feasibility, user acceptance, ease of use, business case, legal and institutional appropriateness.
- The production of different model contracts (as guideline for other operators wishing to set up the system) describing the contractual relations between all concerned partners (transport operators, telecom providers, financial institutions, authorities, etc.) in different constellations.
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