Yorcard was an electronic smart card ticketing programme in Yorkshire. It grew from the pilot of the same name completed in 2009. Yorcard Limited was a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee. Its two guarantors were the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and West Yorkshire Metro. The company's mission was to create a multi-operator smart ticketing system in the whole of the region of Yorkshire and the Humber, ensuring that provision is made to support (especially) smaller operators, multi-operator travel card organisations and regional local authorities. One of the strands of Yorcard's integrated ticketing strategy is to provide a very low-cost pre-paid smart card solution (similar in concept to Oyster's "Pay as You Go" product) for use by all the transport operators in the region.
A trial of LASSEO based encoding was trialled in 2010 to see how the card could be used to allow citizens access to leisure and library services.[1]
References
edit- ^ "Research Folder - Phase 6, Yorcard (2010)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
External links
edit- Yorcard website
- "Yorcard". Travel South Yorkshire. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009.
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