Creation of the interoperability between the electronic ticketing systems in Estonia and Finland

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2024-03-26

Description

Description (EN):

Estonia and Finland are one of the most closely connected countries in Europe. Finland is the number one foreign labour market for the Estonians as Estonia is one of the most popular tourism destinations for the Finns. The number of people and the amount of goods have constantly been growing during the last decade. The tendency shows further increase. A great deal of these passengers (approx. 60%) use public transportation, both for work and leisure. Process-wise, this means purchasing at least three different types of tickets – local tickets in either Helsinki, Tallinn or Tartu, and a ferry ticket. For that, a lot of time will be spent. The journey will get even more fragmented if the passengers need to travel outside the capital regions. Also, further destinations, such as Tartu have their local ticketing systems, which means another purchase. The e-ticketing project aims at connecting ticketing systems in Tallinn, Tartu, and Helsinki to enable seamless travelling. This will significantly simplify the travelling for the people. The project has three groups of activities. Firstly, the conceptual business model will to be sorted out. Secondly, the developing the system and testing it takes place. Thirdly, project partners will pilot the joint ticketing system in Tallinn, Tartu, and Helsinki. It is expected that the time spent on travelling can be reduced approximately by 5%. The tangible results are ticket products in Tallinn, Tartu, and Helsinki (e.g. daily tickets) to prove the concept. After the agreements on ticket pricing and sharing the income (clearing) have been made, the concept is easily further developed and used in other regions in Europe and beyond.

Achievements (EN):

E-TICKETING created interoperability between the electronic ticketing systems in Estonia and Finland. Project developed a joint mobile ticket system that crosses the borders of Finland and Estonia. With the new ticket system it’s possible to buy public transport tickets for all three cities: Helsinki, Tallinn and Tartu with one app, and there is no longer need to buy a plastic card or paper ticket when traveling from another country. Travelers from Estonia to Helsinki can use the mobile application to buy a single public transport ticket. Holders of the Helsinki Travel Card (Matkakortti) can buy and store Tallinn and Tartu day tickets on their travel card. Passengers can view all trip details on the websites www.pilet.ee and www.hsl.fi. The name of the application is Pilet.ee 2020. The application is available for both iOS and Android systems. Even without the app, the HSL Matkakort holder has the option to buy public transport day tickets for Tallinn and Tartu on their card.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R3.1. Travel time of passengers

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project will directly contribute to the fulfilment of the programme result indicator as it is directly oriented in saving passengers’ travel time. It is expected that the time spent on travelling can be reduced approximately by 5%. An example: a person starts the journey from Tallinn. S/he firstly needs a local ticket (can be bought online as well as in kiosks), this will take some 5-15 minutes. Secondly, s/he buys the ferry ticket (another 5-10 minutes) and checks in. After arriving at Helsinki, s/he needs to buy another local ticket (e.g. tram no 9 from Helsinki West Harbour). The ticket queues are long (and outside!) – another 10-20 minutes spent. The same description applies for the journey from Helsinki to Tallinn, too. If these tickets can be purchased in one web page, the total time saved reaches up to 40 minutes. So, the proposed project will create a basis for one-stop-shop for international tickets. The tangible results are ticket products in Tallinn, Tartu, and Helsinki (e.g. daily tickets) to prove the concept. Also, there will be a possibility to use the same cards on one of the ferry companies (Lindaliini AS). After the agreements on ticket pricing and sharing the income (clearing) have been made, the concept is easily further developed (i.e. involving new service providers, such as long-distance bus, ferry, and train companies). There are also several other anticipated results. Hassle free public transportation will probably result in reduced number of private cars or taxis. Also, the service providers can reduce the number of vending machines and tickets sales in public vehicles that lowers their costs.

Thematic information

Multimodal transport ICT and digital society Improving transport connections

Specific Objective: Improved transport flows of people and goods

Thematic Objective: (07) promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures by:

Investment Priority: (07c) developing and improving environmentally-friendly (including low-noise) and low-carbon transport systems, including inland waterways and maritime transport, ports, multimodal links and airport infrastructure, in order to promote sustainable regional and local mobility

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: Tallinna linn

Department: Tallinn Transport Department

Address: Vabaduse väljak 10a, 10146 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.tallinn.ee

Total budget: EUR 973 029.22

ERDF budget: EUR 817 344.54

Tartu Linnavalitsus

Name: Tartu Linnavalitsus

Address: Raekoda -, 50089 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.tartu.ee

Total budget: EUR 187 394.00

ERDF budget: EUR 159 003.81

Helsingin seudun liikenne

Name: Helsingin seudun liikenne

Address: PO BOX 100 -, 77 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hsl.fi

Total budget: EUR 919 448.39

ERDF budget: EUR 679 932.08

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Project name (EN): Creation of the interoperability between the electronic ticketing systems in Estonia and Finland

Project acronym: E-TICKETING

Project start date: 2018-05-01

Project end date: 2022-04-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 079 871.61

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 656 280.44

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 656 280.44.

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

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2023-11-11

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663 / 663 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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