Ascom's Transport Revenue Business Unit has won an important contract from Canada. The transport authority of the city of Montreal has placed an order worth CAD 66 million (CHF 67 million) for chipcard-based fare collection and access control systems. Ascom Transport Revenue won the public bid against a large field of contenders, thanks among other things to previous successful reference projects: Ascom installed fare collection systems of similar complexity for the public transport networks of Lyon, Paris and Milan.
State-of-the-art chipcard-based technologies form the core of the new access control systems as well as the stationary mobile sales and validation terminals for the public transport authority of the city and conurbation of Montreal. STM (Société de transport de Montréal) has awarded the contract to Ascom on behalf of AMT (l'Agence métropolitaine de transport), STL (Société de transport de Laval), RTC (Réseau de transport de la Capitale), RTL (Réseau de transport de Longueuil) as well as the "Conseil intermunicipal de transport de Sorel-Varennes".
"This 67-million-franc order is of key importance for Ascom and the Transport Revenue Business Unit," says Juhani Anttila, Chairman and CEO of Ascom. In 2002 Transport Revenue posted revenues of CHF 283 million.
Successful reference projects worldwide.
"This large contract from Canada comes on the heels of similar projects for other major transport companies," explains Riet Cadonau, Head of Ascom Transport Revenue. "The major order from Montreal shows that when it comes to complex projects for fare collection systems in large conurbations, Ascom is the world's Number One choice." In 2002 Transport Revenue introduced a similar project for fare collection in the city and suburbs of Lyon. Other successful reference projects include the RATP public transport authority of Paris, the French railway operator SNCF, the Milan transport authority in Italy and the Swiss Federal Railways SBB.
Ascom Transport Revenue is among the world's leading providers of networked revenue collection systems for public transport systems, parking management and toll collection. The company's tailor-made customer solutions are the product of an intelligent combination of proprietary key components and standard modules.
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