prCEN/TR 18475

Best practices and use cases using Barcode ticketing for public transport

Scope

This new work item aims at standardizing multi-modal ticketing with modular barcodes on smartphones and on paper tickets for mobility services.
The TR aims to describe, based on real examples how the related barcode ticketing specification for public transport (CEN/TS) should be used for combinations or complex use cases, to make the use of the standard unambiguous.
Specifications will address digital usages with modular barcodes on smartphones and the layout for electronically issued paper tickets.

The scope of work will address the following key areas for representing a barcode ticket:
• the “container” layout: the dataset / datasets defining the contracts (incl. encoding used) : structured barcode data contents.
• how the container is secured/sealed : security elements, including digital signatures with encrypted seals and decryption keys (including for issuer – online or counter - and ticket control), anti-cloning mechanisms as key cryptography, based on an appropriate and certified security infrastructure
• the public key exchange mechanisms
• how to comply with the privacy rules and GDPR requirements
The work will not include :
- Personal modes of operation