China's project for a nationwide transport card, T-union, which is usable on all public transport systems including buses, bikes and subways in any covered service in China. Today, T-union has covered 270+ cities in China with more than 30 million T-union transport cards in use.
With rich experience in developing automatic fare collection solution, EMPTECH has won multiple bids for T-union project of different cities. As a prime solution provider for nation T-union project, EMPTECH has overall scheme design and ticketing terminal development capabilities. Since 2013, EMPTECH has been provided integrated smart bus solution for more than 170 cities across China and serving hundreds of millions of people, such as Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Qingdao, Urumchi, Changsha, Chongqin,Tianjin, etc,. More than 300,000 EMPTECH’s bus validators has been deployed, which support NFC, UnionPay “QuickPass”, QR-code multiple payment method, the smart bus solution has greatly improved efficiency and convenience for passengers.
China expects to achieve full integration of public transport cards in urban and rural areas by 2020 as a part of its nationwide interconnectivity plan.