Budapest Transport Company BKV Electronic Ticket System Flawed
- 5 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
The Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) has decided that the electronic ticket system being developed for public transport in the city is unworkable and will have to be overhauled before it has been introduced. Népszabadság says it reported three months ago that the Ft 28 billion electronic ticket system would have to be scrapped.
Technical specifications were faulty and the architectural work and software tasks were omitted from earlier contracts, Magyar Hírlap writes.
Magyar Idõk adds that preparation and planning was inadequate and the system did not function even at a basic level.
There was a failure to include connection to the central hardware and software systems and transactions systems to the original BKK network in the 2014 tender, according to Népszabadság.
The BKK intended to solve the system integration problems itself, but that has proved to be impossible.
The BKK said it will start planning anew and promised that the modified product will not be any more expensive and that the deadline will not be changed.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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