Philippe VAPPERREAU
Biographical note
Philippe Vappereau obtained an Engineer diploma at the French “Supelec” University in 1983 and joined the Regie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP) the same year. He began as an engineer in the department of rolling stock studies and kept this function until 1988. He then occupied the function of Project manager of vending machines deployment from 1989 till 1991. From 1991 to 1998, he took the position of project manager of Contactless ticketing project, he was also Coordinator of the European project “Icare” (1996-97) and Coordinator of “Calypso” (1998-2000). In 1998 he became Head of Unit of “Innovative Customers Technologies”, in charge of designing and deploying all travel information, ticketing, regulation and supervision systems of RATP. From 2010 to 2013, he was President of Ixxi, a RATP subsidiary in charge of commercialization of passenger information and ticketing solutions. From 2014 to end 2016, he was risk Manager of the RATP Group and member of the RATP Direction Committee. He is Chairman of Calypso (CNA) since May 2008, in charge of specifying Calypso Evolutions and promoting it globally. (Calypso is the contactless secure ticketing standard resulting from the EC funded project).
Presentation: Leading ticketing to open source solutions: a challenge for Calypso
Coming from a rather closed environment, public transport relies more and more on open solutions. This movement towards openness is very clear in the field of passenger information, open data is now the rule, and the main transport operators have taken this way. Through APIs, open source software and a free access to data, many developers offer applications for the benefice of the customer, with an easier access to multimodal transport.
But at this stage ticketing still remains in a quite closed environment with manufacturers providing proprietary solutions. For many years, Calypso has been a de facto ticketing standard, open because accessible to all manufacturers without any restrictions. Today Calypso strongly thinks that ticketing has to follow the same way than passenger information and go to open source solutions. So Calypso offers free of charge, in an open source business model, tools such as an applet for mobile phones or Triangle the interoperable ticketing application. A SDK, very powerful API for integrating different kind of systems, traditional ones or Account Based Ticketing ones will be available soon.
Thanks to these tools, open source will also enter, for the first time, the world of ticketing solutions.
Of course, ticketing cannot strictly follow the example of passenger information, since it is dedicated to manage the revenues. Issues such as guarantee of security, guarantee of interoperability, etc. requires strong governance: here is the role of CNA, the Association of users and providers of Calypso, to offer simultaneously these guarantees and open source solutions.
Coming from a rather closed environment, public transport relies more and more on open solutions. This movement towards openness is very clear in the field of passenger information, open data is now the rule, and the main transport operators have taken this way. Through APIs, open source software and a free access to data, many developers offer applications for the benefice of the customer, with an easier access to multimodal transport.
But at this stage ticketing still remains in a quite closed environment with manufacturers providing proprietary solutions. For many years, Calypso has been a de facto ticketing standard, open because accessible to all manufacturers without any restrictions. Today Calypso strongly thinks that ticketing has to follow the same way than passenger information and go to open source solutions. So Calypso offers free of charge, in an open source business model, tools such as an applet for mobile phones or Triangle the interoperable ticketing application. A SDK, very powerful API for integrating different kind of systems, traditional ones or Account Based Ticketing ones will be available soon.
Thanks to these tools, open source will also enter, for the first time, the world of ticketing solutions.
