Infineon Technologies (Korea CEO Lee Seung-soo) and Udobny Marshrut (UM) announced the implementation of a CIPURSE™-based electronic toll collection system in Russia.

UM has begun deploying this system in Yekaterinburg and Angarsk, with plans to extend it to seven other major cities by the end of 2016. This will enable a total of 2 million citizens to use convenient and highly secure customized public transportation ticketing.

Unlike proprietary solutions currently in widespread use, CIPURSE-based systems make it easy to develop a wide variety of ticketing products, ranging from annual or monthly-use smart cards to disposable electronic paper tickets and multi-function identification cards. For example, the city of Angarsk issued social welfare cards with integrated transportation ticketing functionality for students and seniors.

Peter Sokolovski, General Manager of Udobny Marshrut, stated, "With CIPURSE, we can select innovative and suitable chip products, thereby improving the cost-effectiveness of our ticketing solutions. Additionally, we can seamlessly migrate systems over-the-air."

UM is Russia's second-largest automated fare collection system company. The fact that UM decided to transition to CIPURSE technology demonstrates the advantages of the open standard maintained by the OSPT Alliance. First, CIPURSE-based systems allow selection of competitively priced chip products and convenient development of electronic toll collection products in various form factors.

Second, security can be enhanced, which is especially critical for multi-functional applications. Infineon supplies UM with various CIPURSE-based security chip products for long-term-use smart cards, disposable tickets, and government identification documents.