Kent chooses the ACT HOPS for its smart ticketing project
Chippenham 10 March 2010 - Kent County Council has completed the land mark first step in creating an end to end smart environment to better serve its residents.
Applied Card Technologies (ACT) successfully installed and commissioned the Kent County HOPS managed service live, in November 2009. Following successful card production tests with Kent County Council’s existing card bureau, Euclid, migration from ITSO services limited HOPS to the new independent Kent ACT HOPS managed service, was completed in December 2009.
Kent County Council is the first to migrate from the ISL HOPS to its own independent, fully smart enabled HOPS. The successful completion of this project will enable Kent County Council to roll out its ITSO smart project to include concessionary and commercial transport, as well as the capability of extending this to other public services, such as access to library and leisure facilities.
Philip Ayles of Intelligent Solutions in Transport Limited (IST) said “This has been an exciting time with Kent County Council, ACT, Euclid and IST working closely in partnership to achieve successful migration. Behind the scenes there were many technical issues to consider, all of which were resolved, allowing Kent County Council to broaden its ITSO product portfolio.”
Commenting on the successful completion of the ISL TCA migration project phase, David Joyner from Kent County Council said "This is a first for Kent CC and ISL and we are delighted that this project phase went smoothly for the Kent Concessionary authorities who are now using the Kent HOPS. We continue to move forward with our ITSO smart project roll out and look forward to the successful completion of the remaining project phases.”
Helen Mitchell of ITSO Service Limited said "The successful migration of Kent CC from the ISL HOPS to their own county wide HOPS service is a milestone in the Kent CC smart ticketing project. With more TCA's now accelerating their ITSO smart programmes, we are already seeing final plans for further migrations in the coming weeks and months”
