French firm Thales bags contract to extend DMRC ticket system

French firm Thales today said it has won a contract from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to augment its ticketing system of phase I and II.
"Thales has been awarded by DMRC the ticketing system augmentation of phases I and II of the Delhi metro. As part of this upgrade, additional ticketing machines and access gates will be provided to improve passengers' travel facilities and comfort," the company said in a statement.
The project will cover about 100 stations, improving and increasing the ticketing system of Phases I and II of the Delhi metro (the first 65 km of track and the following 125 km) with a new generation of unattended equipment for ticket sale, Thales said.

Thales will deliver a total of 240 additional access gates and install 300 ticket vending machines (TVM) and 150 automatic vending machines (AVM) dedicated for card top up, it added.
The additional gates will be delivered by February 2016 and completed by September 2016.
Recently, two new stations - Faridabad and Samaypur Badli - have been inaugurated with the new automated vending machines which allow to significantly reduce queues at ticket counters.

The company said it has been a trusted partner of DMRC for more than 13 years.
Till date, Thales covers more than 70 per cent of the total network serving around 3 million passengers every day.

The company said it represents a total of 800 new TVM, 600 AVM and 1130 access gates.
"Thales's automated systems are helping to make public transport more attractive to Delhi's citizens and reduce congestion and CO2 emissions in an urban area where road traffic is particularly dense," the statement said.
The company said it has many successful references in the country which include ticketing systems for New Delhi and Gurgaon metros, communication and supervision systems for New Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Bangalore metros, and advanced signaling CBTC for the Hyderabad metro.
In main line, Thales provides Digital axle counters throughout the Indian Railways network and a train protection and warning system (European Train Control System) for the Southern Railway.