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EANS-News: German premiere: E-ticketing without borders

Hanover/Germany, 03/12/2010. (euro adhoc) -

Hoeft & Wessel produces first interoperable solution conforming to 
VDV-KA
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Subtitle: Hoeft & Wessel produces first interoperable solution 
conforming to VDV-KA
With the e-ticket that is
valid on two separate transport networks, Germany for the first time 
has a cross-border, trans-regional e-ticketing solution. The Almex 
division of Hoeft & Wessel Group has just implemented an 
interoperable solution of this kind for the Schwäbisch-Hall and 
Ostalbkreis districts in the German federal state of 
Baden-Württemberg. Passengers can use their e-ticket on scheduled 
buses belonging to different transport companies both in "their own" 
and in the neighbouring region. Previously a separate ticket had to 
be purchased for travel in the neighbouring region.
This is a first for Germany. Despite the existence of the VDV-KA 
e-ticketing standard, which covers the whole of Germany, only closed 
solutions catering for individual regions had been realised to date. 
"Our objective is to make it possible for e-tickets issued by 
individual transport networks to be used throughout Germany. Once 
this has become a reality, even more passengers will switch to bus 
and rail," says a confident Thomas Wolf, member of the Management 
Board of the Hoeft & Wessel Group.
Thanks to the intelligent solution developed by Almex, the two 
separate e- ticketing systems in the Schwäbisch-Hall and Ostalbkreis 
districts were successfully linked up. And this despite the 
differences in the way the two systems operate: in the Ostalbkreis 
district, the fare is deducted when a passenger boards a bus, but the
Schwäbisch-Hall district runs the check- in/check-out system made by 
Almex, where the cheapest fare is calculated at the end of the 
journey (using the "best price" method).
The software specialists from Almex have now upgraded both systems in
such a way that they can handle e-tickets from the neighbouring 
region. The VDV-KA system from Almex provides German regional 
transport companies with a proven solution from a single source.
The e-ticketing application implemented by Almex in the 
Schwäbisch-Hall district was a German first, back in the year 2006. 
Having obtained certification for the dominant e-ticketing standards 
- VDV-KA in Germany, ITSO in the UK and Calypso in southern Europe - 
Almex is one of Europe´s leading providers in this market and has 
already successfully completed a large number of projects in Germany,
the UK, Portugal, Switzerland and Spain.
The Almex division of the Hoeft & Wessel Group is one of the largest 
manufacturers of ticketing systems for public transport in Europe. 
The division also supplies mobile GSM-R communications solutions for 
railways.
www.almex.co.uk
Press folder with photos: 
http://www.presseportal.de/pm/12945/hoeft_wessel_ag/
About the company The Hoeft & Wessel Group is the leading German IT 
and engineering technology group for ticketing, parking and mobile 
solutions. Founded in 1978 by the two entrepreneurs of the same name,
the company has developed into a corporate group with sales revenues 
of just under EUR 100 million and a workforce of 500 employees. Its 
headquarters are Hanover, Germany, and Swindon, UK, to the west of 
London.
end of announcement                               euro adhoc

Further inquiry note:

Arnd Fritzemeier
Tel.: +49-511-6102-300
E-Mail: PR@hoeft-wessel.com

Branche: Technology
ISIN: DE0006011000
WKN: 601100
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