Are Disposable Chip Cards Ready For Rollout?

摘要

Transit agencies rolling out chip-based fare cards to their regular customers are wrestling with the question of what to do with their occasional riders. If they could also issue a chip card to those riders, the agencies would only need chip card readers and could junk their breakdown-prone magnetic stripe devices. The problem has been the price of the chip-based disposable cards. That remains the main obstacle preventing transit operators from going completely contactless. But promoters of the chip-based disposables are starting to have more examples to point to. One of the most recent is an order by transit officials in Oslo, Norway, for 10 million of the chip-based paper tickets.