Bus card 35 City Universal

By the end of October, 35 cities, including Tianjin, Shenyang, and Fuzhou, will realize the interconnection and interconnection of the national city card.

The 35-city Jinan General Motors Jinan was not in the first three batches. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development had stated that this year, Tianjin, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Fuzhou and other cities will join the public transport “One Card” interconnection platform. Buses are used in more than 30 cities across the country, and some cities can also enjoy ferry and bicycle rental services. On October 29th, the national city card interconnection platform will officially join the third batch of 18 cities, including Tianjin, Shenyang, Fuzhou and other cities mentioned at the beginning of the year. By now, the platform will provide public transportation for the citizens of 35 cities. Service, but there is no Jinan in this batch of access cities.

Then, Jinan was able to achieve this interconnection plan this year? The reporter first consulted the relevant staff of the Jinan Bus Company, but they responded that they did not know that there was such a thing. For the report at the beginning of the year, they said that they were not clear, and said at the time. The source of the report is not Jinan Bus Company.

Afterwards, the reporter consulted with the ICBC Application Service Center of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. A staff member stated that Jinan had indeed applied for participating in the national card interconnection. However, due to some preparatory work that has not yet been completed, Jinan could not realize interoperability for the time being. .

“Jinan is a national capital of the provincial capital. It already has a large IC card, and it involves multiple fields. The relevant policies and related fields are relatively mature. It will be more complex when carrying out inter-project construction and system transformation. It is a relatively long process for big cities to join the interconnection platform,” said Sun Kai, a staff member. At present, Jinan is actively preparing for an intense and orderly interconnection, including upgrading of back-office systems and vehicle-mounted terminals. Upgrades and more.

Sun Kai said that according to the current progress of work, it is expected that Jinan will access the public transport "E-card" internet platform in April next year. "We will access the platform twice a year in April and October because the current preparation work in Jinan is not yet complete. Completed, missed the opportunity for this year's October and can only wait until next April."

The technical conditions already have the issue of large amount of cards is a problem Sun Kai said that interconnection is a complex and huge and long-term IC card project.

First of all, applying for a public transport IC card system in the city requires the establishment of a unified standard system with a large platform, followed by a unified security key system. This is the core two points. The investment needed to join the big platform depends on the size and system of the IC card in the city itself. If the technical standards and system of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development were to be applied, the investment would be very small, and only the background data could be changed. Jinan has always been building and applying for a unified key security system in accordance with the standards of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. From the standard and technical aspects, Jinan already has the conditions for joining the Internet. However, because Jinan has a relatively large number of card issuances and involves many application fields, if it is to achieve interconnection and interoperability, such as IC card terminal equipment, card operating systems, security systems, back-office systems and many other aspects, but also in many departments and industries. Coordinating can be achieved without obstacles.

Sun Kai said that as far as Beijing is concerned, Beijing has a relatively large amount of card issuance and involves more application areas, such as convenience store recharge, municipal payment, and other third-party cooperation. If it is to achieve interoperability, it needs to be in multiple departments and Inter-industry coordination can be achieved without obstacles. "Because it is too much trouble, so now Beijing has not achieved interconnection." Sun Kai said.

After joining the company, you can enjoy the convenience of the Jinan citizens after you can swipe your card in different places and enjoy the local benefits.

Sun Kai said that the definition of interconnection is that local city IC cards can be used for credit card spending in other cities, while cardholders can enjoy preferential policies for local card swiping. For example, in Beijing, the implementation of four-fold discount bus card, a ticket for one dollar, only four cents for a credit card.

As the public transport IC card serves the public mainly for the general public, the realization of the bus card “one card for multiple purposes” and the convenience of people’s travel have become the development direction of the public transport IC card. The construction-oriented IC card led by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has achieved various degrees of multi-field application in many cities. At the same time, some cities in China still rely on the actual needs of local informatization development to explore the use of IC cards to build multi-field applications for pilot projects. At present, most of the city's card applications have broken through integrated transportation, and have expanded to public utilities payment, large-scale public buildings and Landscape industry access control, digital community management, parking management, daily convenience and small-scale consumer industries or areas.