Moscow Metro, one of the most heavily used metro systems in the world with 278.8 km of route length, 12 lines and 172 stations has introduced RFID-enabled ticketing system on a trial-basis to check ticket fraud and diminish equipment failures.
Moscow Metro, which has wide networks throughout Russia carrying 8.2 million passengers on a normal weekday has decided to embrace RFID technology after confronting loopholes in the existing ticketing system.
As part of the trial program, the state-owned enterprise would use RFID technologies of UPM Raflatac. The trial will run still end of summer.
Nearly five million RFID tickets bearing 13.56 MHz RFID tags will be issued to the passengers during this period. The number RFID-enabled ticket inlays may be increased to 30 million depending upon the results.
The Moscow Metro has decided to introduce RFID tickets for the passengers after marking loopholes in the previously used magnetic-strip cards in the tickets. These cards were counterfeited and used fraudulently.
