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Subject: Santiago�s Subway System Introduces Chip Cards

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( 2003-02-27 )

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Date Posted: Thursday, February 27, 06:27:01pm

Santiago�s Subway System Introduces Chip Cards

Chile's government-run Metro of Santiago went live this week with contactless smart cards that operate throughout the 52 subway stations and three lines of Santiago. The company is completing distribution of 100,000 smart cards, provided by the German chip card vendor Giesecke & Devrient. The system has deployed 160 card-reloading machines and 320

smart card readers in turnstiles, both from Indra Sistemas S.A. of Spain. Called "Multivia," each card costs

1,000 pesos (about US$1.35), but cardholders receive a free subway ride after 20 rides and pay 20 pesos less per trip than do paper ticket users. Multivia users can have their 1,000 pesos refunded within three months of purchase if they are not happy with the smart card. Pedro Sabatini, head of

integration projects for Metro of Santiago, says the firm plans to phase out its paper tickets. It also expects that the smart cards will go live in the firm's 350 buses in Santiago within three months. Approximately 800,000 people travel daily on Santiago's subway and 150,000 on its metro buses. Ultimately, Metro of Santiago plans to expand smart

card service to its commuter trains in Santiago and

Valparaiso.

Separately, the Metropolitan Union Association for Passenger Transport (AGMTP) announced that it will be launching smart cards for its buses, which also are in Santiago. The private bus association, the largest in Santiago with 3,800 buses, plans to equip all its vehicles to accept smart cards and to install 500 point-of-sale systems at kiosks, bus terminals and bus stops. The AGMTP expects to close a deal in the next few days with a multinational firm that will provide the smart card equipment and to then go live with the smart cards three months later. The transit agency would not name the vendor. Driving the smart card launches by AGMTP and Metro of

Santiago is a call by Chile's government for Santiago's entire transportation system to be smart card-compliant by 2005.

( 2003-02-27 )

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