Budapest BKK Centre for Budapest Transport and German supplier Scheidt & Bachmann (S&B) jointly approved the updated project schedule for the automated fare-collection (AFC) system implementation. This includes the testing of an access gate to be installed at one of the metro stations by July 2017. BKK has made the changes jointly with S&B, with the support of the chief project financer, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development along with the Municipality of Budapest.
BKK will launch several pilot projects that are planned to be deployed at Deák Ferenc tér metro station, the only transfer station for the M1, M2, and M3 lines and at onde of the suburban railway stations.
Under the BKK and S&B collaboration, the third phase of the project has been successfully completed. Besides contractual performance, some 90 modifications had to be made to the technical requirements of the system.
The just-completed phase contained numerous technology-related solutions, modifications and the design and approval of new technical elements. Based on updated, more precise passenger counting at metro stations, the exact number of access gates to be installed could be successfully finalised, based on which implementation planning has started.
In the course of further work processes, BKK is working on the implementation of the system according to schedule, so that Budapest public transport passengers can be provided with a convenient, state-of-the-art system.
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