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It has been granted permission to install access gateways at Budapest Transport Center (BKK) at several stations of subway 4. The introduction of the electronic ticketing system has not yet officially been set.
The electronic ticketing system in Budapest is again showing signs of improvement, according to the documents published on the governments website, on November 8, the railway transport authority belonging to the Ministry of Innovation and Technology (ITM) issued the permission to enter the access gates on Kálvin tér and II. Pál János at Pápa square station, pro Montel Zrt. Acting under the authority of BKK. According to the available documents, the licensing process has been in place for Újbuda-center station since September and the administration can last for 4 months.
"In the case of the M2 metro line at the Kossuth Square station, in the case of a similar request, the Budapest Disaster Management Directorate did not contribute to the establishment as a special authority. The application for a license application was not submitted for any of the gates, "said ITM at Napi.hu.
Most recently in September, the BKK informed us that our target date is not the introduction of the Budapest electronic ticketing system, but we are currently installing the infrastructure required to operate the system, software development, training and testing tasks. Only a few of the 11,000 ticket validators have been equipped with 29 buses and trolley buses (eg trolley 76), and can be met at the Deák Square metro station and at the public terminal (H6 HÉV) station with validation devices and access control posts.
A trusted partner
According to the authorization of the BKK, the pro Montel Zrt. Procuring the access control gates is the old partner of the transport company. According to the April article of the Innoteka Mélyépítés magazine, the company has participated in the reconstruction work on all metro lines in Budapest over the past period. Swietelsky Vasúttechnika Kft. Works as a subcontractor for the renovation of the northern section of metro line 3, but it is also active above the surface as they participate in the tram-train project between billions of Szeged and Hódmezovásárhely . According to the article, they took part in the construction of a NATO base in Skoplje, capital of Macedonia.
On the subordinate metro line 4, Siemens was a sub contractor for Pro Montel, primarily telecommunications tasks. Last year, the government also published the report of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) on Metro 4, which Siemens suspected of including, among other things. The multinational company has built power and train control systems for 31.7 billion forints. According to OLAF, the company could have inside information and thus gained an unauthorized competitive advantage, which would result in the full refund of EU funding.
Pro Montel did not close very well in 2017, with a turnover of 981 million forints and a loss of 343 million forints. However, the negative result was not typical of the company since they had a turnover of HUF 2-3 billion between 2013 and 2016, resulting in a profit of HUF 80-380 million. Pro Montels sole shareholder is ProMontel Invest Zrt., Which had no income in 2016 and 2017 and is owned by the Ayudate Investments Group ApS in Copenhagen. This Danish company was formerly called Power Investments, which was the director of Géza Terner between 2011 and 2013. Thats Origo wrote in March this year that a bribery investigation was conducted in connection with Metro 4 in connection with the crime, and the fourth suspect of the case, Géza Terner, could not be interrogated as he fled to Israel.
Great promises
In any case, the electronic ticketing system and access control gates will be very modern as promised. One of the biggest advantages of this solution is that the purchase of the lease and the uploading of the travel balance in the future can be done over the Internet or via a mobile phone application. BKK vending machines are also supplemented with services related to the electronic ticketing system: they will also be able to buy a lease, pay a surcharge, and charge a balance. "The subway and the priority HVV stations will be locked with an automatic access door, only those who have a valid card and a product or a balance can get access to the gates." At the exit, the access doors will automatically open and no further validation will be needed at this time "- read the Electronic Ticket System informative side.
How this becomes when it comes to reality is still questionable. Mayor Tarlós, Mayor, announced in October 2014 that he signed a contract for the construction and operation of the Budapest electronic ticketing system with BKK with German Scheidt & Bachmann. The capital contributed 5.5 billion forints to the development of own resources.
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