SmartExpress

Abstract: This is a research focusing on stimulating the comfort and safety when it comes to payment for travelling with the trains and the busses in the Swedish county Skane. The question at the issue is; can we create a system that doesn’t require the responsibility of carrying a particular tool? Can we give the passengers the possibility to control their accounts to register in a more independent way than today with Skanetrafiken? And can this be done by using fingerprint technology? My goal is mainly to observe today’s monthly and discount-card system in Skane and around the world, discover the disadvantages and design a new system as solution. The new payment system is called SmartExpress. It involves fingerprint recognition and will hopefully fit in today’s technology and have useful possibilities that will come in handy for the next generations.