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Contactless Technology for Bicycles in France and Spain

As cars' traffic and subsequent traffic jams and pollution reach an unprecedented level, governments try to solve environmental issues through a global multimodal public transport service.

ASK, a world leader in contactless technology, announced that the delivery of their contactless cards for Cyclocity services is ongoing in several cities, including Aix en Provence, Paris and Seville, Spain. Cyclocity is a self service bike rental application based on contactless technology. It has already been successfully implemented in Lyon for 2 years.

Bicycles in the city are a new vehicle for short distance urban transport and participate in sustainable and environmental policies, a growing demand of governments and citizens. As traffic jams and pollution reach an unprecedented level, governments try to solve environmental issues through a global multimodal public transport service. Bicycles perfectly complete the offer of subways, tramways and buses for seamless mass transit.

With 20,600 bicycles available on 1,451 stations, Paris Velib' service will be the largest worldwide project of bicycle rental. Parisians will rediscover their city freely, in a convenient, user friendly and clean new vehicle and ASK contactless card.

"The Cyclocity badge complies with ISO 14443 B standard, the widest public transport standard for contactless microprocessor cards, says Christophe Peix, ASK France Sales Manager. Badge requests are now available through a new dedicated website at http://www.velib.paris.fr/, he adds."

ASK as the leading provider of contactless tickets and cards for public transportation systems was a natural partner for JCDecaux when developing its self-service bicycle rental in Lyon. Since it was launched in May 2005, ASK has successfully provided C.ticket, contactless paper tickets, TDM, a Ticket Dispensing Machine as well as subscribers' contactless cards.