Cubic and Transport for New South Wales Complete Transition to Opal Card-Only System
August 11 2016 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Cubic Transportation Systems delivers a single
electronic ticketing system and new top-up machines with disposable
smart card tickets as last paper tickets retire
Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS), a business unit of Cubic
Corporation (NYSE:CUB), today announced another milestone for the
Cubic-designed Opal smart card ticketing system with retirement of
the last paper tickets in Sydney, Australia. Launched in December
2012, the Opal card system, which was designed, installed and
operated by Cubic, is now used for 95 percent of all public
transport trips. To date, customers have taken 800 million trips
and more than 7.5 million cards have been issued. The transition to
an Opal-only system was aided by Cubic’s development of a
single-trip, disposable smart card ticket.
Starting this month, the old-style paper tickets for public
transport will no longer be sold or accepted, marking the
completion of Sydney’s transition to the modern, integrated
electronic-ticketing system. Customers who don’t have an Opal card
can now purchase the single-trip Opal smart cards through 255 Opal
top-up machines, which are located at train, light rail and ferry
stops.
“Opal is enormously popular with Sydney and regional customers
who no longer need to fumble for coins or wait in long ticket
queues,” said Tom Walker, Asia-Pacific managing director for Cubic
Transportation Systems. “The introduction of the single-trip smart
cards provides a last resort option for customers who don’t have an
Opal card at the time of travel.”
The transition to a single electronic ticketing system also has
major benefits for transport agencies and operators across Sydney
and surrounding regional areas. Opal card technology will make it
much easier to gather essential information, with strong privacy
controls, to study the travel patterns of frequent and infrequent
public transport users. The collected data then becomes invaluable
for transport planners, as it will offer a better understanding of
how customers use the system, so services can be adjusted to meet
the demand.
An Opal-only system is also expected to save millions of dollars
through reducing fare evasion, particularly by the misuse of
concession paper tickets, which currently cost taxpayers $22
million a year.
About Cubic Corporation
Cubic Corporation designs, integrates and operates systems,
products and services focused in the transportation, defense
training and secure communications markets. Cubic Transportation
Systems is a leading integrator of payment and information
technology and services to create intelligent travel solutions for
transportation authorities and operators. Cubic Global Defense is a
leading provider of live, virtual, constructive and game-based
training solutions, special operations and intelligence for the
U.S. and allied forces. Cubic Mission Solutions provides networked
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities for defense,
intelligence, security and commercial missions. For more
information about Cubic, please visit the company's website
at www.cubic.com or on Twitter @CubicCorp.
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