Public transport companies will decide this year on the replacement of the current nfc chip by one based on the emv standard for the public transport chip card. That would make it superfluous to top up the public transport card by travelers.
If the collaborating carriers, united in the National Public Transport Council, decide to switch to emv, new payment methods could become commonplace within a few years, writes OVPro, the online trade journal for the public transport sector. Some of the current public transport gates would already be suitable for the emv standard.
Not only could the emv standard replace that of the current nfc chip of the public transport card, but the step would also allow for payment with smartphone, bank card and barcode. Travelers no longer have to think about increasing the credit. The chip handles verification and payment is made through the user’s linked account. “The moment when you travel and the moment of settlement can thus be more easily separated,” reports Janse de Jonge, chairman of the NOVB.
Public transport companies have been testing checking in and out via mobile phones and bank cards for some time now. It is unknown when the final decision on the introduction of EMV will be made. The public transport companies do report to the Rail Passenger site that the current public transport chip card will be reduced in price and will be cheaper than 7.50 euros.
Emv is named after the initiators Europay, Mastercard and Visa. It is a standard for chip-based payment methods and supports NFC, QR codes and tokenization, among other things. The current public transport chip card contains the Infineon SLE-66 NFC chip. It replaced NXP’s MiFare Classic when it turned out to be easy to crack.