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Travel Card & Access Control in Paris Public Transport

MARKET: Public transportation
APPLICATIONS: Access control
CHALLENGE: Store transportation data on a contactless smart card and enable communication between the card and a contactless terminal
THE EVOLIS SOLUTIONS: Pebble Printer

Navigo Pass: A travel card with advanced contactless encoding

Since 2001, all public transportation companies for the Paris area have collectively migrated from tickets with a magnetic track to the Navigo pass, an advanced contactless card.

As a result, any resident of Parisí inner or suburban area can benefit from their subscription scheme on this pass. The objective is to streamline the flow of commuters throughout the entire transportation network.

This contactless pass relies on two technologies:

Chip-enabled card
Wireless data transmission

The Navigo pass hosts a chip that contains all transportation information and has an antenna which communicates it to contactless terminals at the entry/exit gates of the transportation network.

Travelers can now pass through gates nearly four times faster than when using magnetic tickets, as information is transmitted with no contact and at a greater speed.

Card personalization on RATP sales outlets

Since 2002, the RATP opened 35 sales outlets throughout its network with the prime mission of instantly creating and issuing Navigo passes.

The RATP chose the Pebble card printer from Evolis to carry out the personalization of these passes.

“Choosing Evolis Card Printers proved strategic”, Jean-Paul Lefèvre interview

In the interview, Jean-Paul Lefèvre , Business Manager, Information Systems and Telecommunications, RATP, explains its satisfaction about Evolis Card Printer.

What were the key reasons for selecting Evolis Card Printers in 2001? Can you tell us about the pass personalization process? How satisfied is the RATP regarding the Evolis card printers?

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Evolis manufactures plastic id card printers for id badge printing and personalization : student ID cards, loyalty programs, banking cards, transportation passes, membership cards, driving licences, identity cards, id card, employee badges, voting cards, health cards, access badges, and visitor badges. A badge can host data pertaining to its holder, with four-color photo-quality printing, and perform data encoding (magnetic stripe, smart card and/or contactless card). Evolis is specialized in creating these innovative id card printers. Evolis also markets the Badgy card printer , a turnkey solution to print badges on plastic cards , in small runs and without encoding options. Get more information on Badgy card printer on www.badgy.com . Evolis also offers accessories and identification supplies through its subsidiary SOGEDEX ACCESSORIES.

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