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捷運技術半年刊 第 35 期 95 年 8 月 187

AFC Saga：From a Magnetic Ticket to All

Contactless Payments

Gerard NAJMAN

Abstract

As populations grow, cities and countries are pressed to provide their populations with
increasingly more complex transport networks. Meeting these needs requires equally sophisticated
transportation technologies. Here is a look at how some of these technologies have been improving
the quality of life for people in Taipei and worldwide as well, and will keep doing in the future.

As in the National Palace Museum of Taipei where an impressive chronological table describes
the evolution of the various civilisations worldwide over the past centuries, this article explains how
Taipei choices for its public transport fare collection systems have fitted in the development
background of this field, from magnetic tickets to be used in the MRT only to the contactless smart
EasyCard, a mobility card enabling to travel anywhere in Taipei City.

New contactless form factors are coming now, from a contactless smart token for single
journeys to the mobile phone which will be both a fare media and a personal way to buy a value and
load it into the chip: no more queuing in front of a booth or a vending machine.

自動收費系統的重大事蹟

從磁票轉變到全面非接觸付費

摘 要

因為人口的成長，使得各個城市及鄉村被迫提供其民眾日趨複雜的運輸路網，因此需要
同樣繁複的運輸科技以符合其需求。本文係探討某些運輸科技過去對台北及世界各地人們的
生活品質所作的改善及其於未來如何持續的進行。
如同台北國立故宮博物院內令人印象深刻的依年代次序排列圖表述說過去數個世紀許多
文明國家的演進，這個主題說明台北所選擇的大眾運輸收費系統已符合此領域的發展背景，
從僅適用於捷運系統的磁票到臺北市各處旅遊都可使用的行動卡－非接觸式悠遊卡。

新型的非接觸卡已問世，從單程票之非接觸晶片式代幣，到可兼作車費媒介及個人儲/加
值時載入晶片之行動電話：亦即不再需要於詢問處或售票機前排隊了。

Business Development Director TFCS
Thales Transportation Systems S.A.