KYIV. Jan 31 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Kyiv authorities intend to introduce the electronic fare payment system for city transport in 2017, Director of the transport infrastructure department of Kyiv City Administration Serhiy Maizel has said.
“In 2017, we plan to introduce e-ticket in Kyiv. I would say that it has been introduced by 50%. It is used for high-speed tram, city trains, subway and funicular… The system we tested in 2016 [attracting Visa and Mastercard payment systems] proved that it could exist. Any person with the Kyiv resident’s card and bank cards would be able to use transport,” Maizel said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday.
He said that soon the tender to supply equipment for overland transport will be launched.
He said that the issue of raising the fares in Kyiv after the introduction of the system has not yet discussed.
Maizel said that from 2017 the conditions of cooperation of the city with private public transport operators would change. Private carries will have to sign long-term contracts with the city and the obligatory condition of them will be the replacement of their fleet during five years.
He also said that Kyiv intends to develop the night route system. First night trips were introduced late 2016. In a month of their operations 10,000 passengers were carried on three trolleybus routes and one bus route.
