The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PATH) have been conducting pioneering work on a standard for contactless fare collection. Last week (October 19, 2004), officials conducted an interoperability test to demonstrate the ability of various ISO 14443 compliant contactless technology to function running their evolving standard. The public trial was held in San Francisco using a series of cards and readers from different vendors, testing each one’s ability to perform a different type of fare setup. Though there were some slight differences in performance between the tested products, all of the cards and readers proved interoperable–a major achievement in a market where the technology’s interoperability is frequently in question.
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