JR East contactless IC card automatic fare collection system "Suica"

Author

Shirakawa, Yasutomo

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

10

Abstract

East Japan Railway Company (JR East) is one of the seven railway companies founded in April 1987 upon the division and privatization of the old Japanese National Railways. As the largest railway company in Japan, JR East has a network of 7,538.2 kilometers of tracks in the Tokyo area and eastern Honshu Main Island, and more than 16 million passengers are using our service everyday. JR East, as a future-oriented company, is making efforts for creative technological development in both hardware and software elements to enable numerous services, befitting the new era of technological innovation. Our automatic fare collection system with contactless IC Card is one of the results of such development. It has been introduced into the stations within a radius of about 100 kilometers in Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

Keywords

electronic commerce; railways; smart cards; traffic information systems; travel industry; East Japan Railway Company; JR East contactless IC card; Suica; automatic fare collection system; software elements; technological development; Automatic frequency control; Companies; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic switching systems; Exchange rates; Postal services; Rail transportation; Read only memory; Technological innovation; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Assurance Systems Engineering, 2002. Proceedings. 7th IEEE International Symposium on

ISSN

1530-2059

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1769-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HASE.2002.1173094

Filename

1173094