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190 Gerard NAJMAN AFC saga:From a magnetic ticket to all contactless payments

The first stage of the project included the implementation of EasyCard in the MRT（64
stations）, the 5 000 urban buses operated in Taipei City and part of Taipei County and 47 city
owned gated parking lots:
☆ All fare gates in the MRT stations were upgraded with a contactless card reader but kept the
existing magnetic card reader.

☆ All buses have been equipped with a stand alone contactless card validator that replaced the
former magnetic card validator; fareboxes has remained to enable occasional passengers to still
pay with coins.
☆ All public car parks entry and exit gantries have been upgraded with a contactless card reader.

The EasyCards can be reloaded at MRT sales outlets or at AVM（Add Value Machines）or in
convenience stores equipped with point of sale terminals.
All the transaction data stored in the various card accepting devices are downloaded into the
related Central System to ultimately feed the Clearing House which every night apportions the
revenues collected from the stored values between the operators.

The system has been extended to some taxis and to on-street parking: those new fields are still
at a pilot stage.
The system is organised according to the following chart:

Central Clearing House (TSCC)

Transfer

Instructions
Transaction Transaction
Bank Transaction
Settlement

Amount
S S S

Service E ER RV VI IC C ERVI
Providers

EasyCard holder