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Ev 198 <strong>Transport</strong> Committee: Evidence<br />
2. It is our underst<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>ing that the increase in clear-up rates were better for more serious crimes than the<br />
overall all figure of 3.7% <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> TSSA particularly welcomes this improvement.<br />
3. A similar operati<strong>on</strong> has recently c<strong>on</strong>cluded (5 January 2008) <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> informati<strong>on</strong> should be available<br />
shortly.<br />
January 2008<br />
Supplementary memor<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>um from Merseytravel (TPT 28A)<br />
As promised, I am resp<strong>on</strong>ding to various questi<strong>on</strong>s raised by the Committee <strong>on</strong> 5 December 2007, it was<br />
asked what the percentage of TCAs is who already have smartcards.<br />
Questi<strong>on</strong> 32<br />
All TCAs will be issuing new c<strong>on</strong>cessi<strong>on</strong>ary passes in the form of ITSO compliant smartcards, (this<br />
excludes the L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong> Boroughs who have been given an exempti<strong>on</strong> by the Department of <strong>Transport</strong> until<br />
2010).<br />
There are a number of TCA areas where smartcards have already been implemented. Some of the Smart<br />
card schemes are, what has been described as legacy schemes, that is those that are now compliant with <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
therefore cannot work with the new c<strong>on</strong>cessi<strong>on</strong> passes. These have been c<strong>on</strong>sidered as though they are not<br />
smart in this resp<strong>on</strong>se, as the new passes will have to be used as flash passes.<br />
ITSO Services Limited has been set up to look after those TCAs who do not have an ITSO compliant<br />
back oYce. The number of TCAs who are expected to or have signed up to this service, <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> who are therefore<br />
c<strong>on</strong>sidered to be n<strong>on</strong>-ITSO-smart is 253.<br />
The remaining TCAs are or will be so<strong>on</strong> ITSO compliant <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> are therefore in process of rolling out ITSO<br />
compliant equipment to their busses. On a percentage basis this probably accounts for between 5% <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> 10%<br />
of the bus populati<strong>on</strong> of Engl<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> (depending <strong>on</strong> what defining you use for buses <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> for the total bus<br />
market); around 4,500 buses, expected to be equipped by, say, end 2008. Further take up will depend <strong>on</strong><br />
how well Government “encourages” TCAs, <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> their bus operators, to equip their buses with ITSO<br />
compliant smart card equipment.<br />
With the right encouragement it would be possible to have all of the country so equipped within five to<br />
seven years, without causing any major skewing of the equipment market.<br />
Questi<strong>on</strong> 53<br />
The Chairman asked for a guide to smartcard types:<br />
There are basically two types of c<strong>on</strong>tactless smartcard. These are “memory” cards <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> “microprocessor”<br />
cards.<br />
Memory cards do not c<strong>on</strong>tain a processor <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> are therefore <strong>on</strong>ly able to store “data” <strong>on</strong> them. All of the<br />
intelligence (<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> security) is put into the [c<strong>on</strong>tactless] smartcard reader. These smartcards come in various<br />
sizes. ITSO has several memory cards in its portfolio of useable card types. Most, but not all of these, are<br />
based <strong>on</strong> Mifare,R technology. They range is size from about 250 bytes (or characters), of data up to 4<br />
Kilobytes (around 4,000 characters of data). They are usually lower cost than micro-processor cards because<br />
they <strong>on</strong>ly c<strong>on</strong>tain “memory” <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> do not have any processing capability.<br />
Micro-processor cards are, as their name implies, equipped with a small processor <strong>on</strong> them. They can<br />
therefore run “applets” (micro-processor speak for programs) that enable them to do more than the basic<br />
memory cards can. They can c<strong>on</strong>tain more than <strong>on</strong>e applicati<strong>on</strong> that can be invoked by the card reader<br />
calling the applicati<strong>on</strong> via an applicati<strong>on</strong> identifier. They can be much bigger than memory cards, but<br />
typically in c<strong>on</strong>tactless smartcard <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> transport applicati<strong>on</strong>s they tend to be around 4 Kilobytes in size.<br />
Some of the older types of micro-processor cards can be quite slow.<br />
ITSO can work with either or the above types of c<strong>on</strong>tactless smart cards. (There are eight defined types<br />
of c<strong>on</strong>tactless smartcard media available in the ITSO Specificati<strong>on</strong>.) This is <strong>on</strong>e of the selling points of the<br />
ITSO Specificati<strong>on</strong> in that implementers can mix <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> match card types according to the needs of the scheme<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> of the customer. This includes pretty much every smartcard that is manufactured to the ISO 144443<br />
c<strong>on</strong>tactless smartcard st<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>ard.