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Can Midlands Connect deliver multi-operator ticketing vision?

Contactless ticketing with fare capping across multiple modes and operators has long been a goal for transport authorities in England’s city-regions and regions. Midlands Connect believes it now has the technological solution to make it a reality?

19 October 2020
 

Midlands Connect has requested £20m from the DfT to develop an account-based ticketing system that will facilitate contactless ticketing with fare capping across multiple modes and operators. 

Known as ‘Broker’, the system reflects lessons that Midlands Connect has learnt from Transport for the North’s failed ABBOT (Account-Based Back Office Travel) abortive project to develop a similar customer offer. 

“Broker is not a ‘single back-office’...

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Warrington Borough Council
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Specialist Transport Services Manager
Warrington Borough Council
Warrington
GRADE 13 (£58,797 - £63,735)
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Warrington Borough Council
Warrington
GRADE 13 (£58,797 - £63,735)
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