Smart cards to be offered by Chennai Metro Rail Limited
Posted on: 10/Dec/2013 4:50:05 PM
Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) will offer smartcards for regular users and tokens for one-time users. CMRL will be able to monitor their patronage in real time with this system.
Last month, CMRL held a workshop on fare collection. Officials from the state transportation authority, MTC, Southern Railway, Centre for Railway Information Systems, Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, IRCTC, call taxi operators and representatives of bus ticket booking websites attended it.
Metro rail had proposed a common smart card
for electronic fare collection as per international standards. "The
challenge is to split the revenue with the department concerned. We are waiting
for a response from others," said the CMRL official.
