It will allow users to pay with contactless transport cards, QR codes and EMV cards, physical or emulated on smartphones.

The positioning and service of the fleet, as well as possible emergency situations, may be controlled to improve its quality.

Madrid, December 16, 2021.-After the acquisition of the company Transportes Rober, SA, which manages urban transport in the city of Granada, the ALSA Group has once again placed its trust in the technology ofGMV, contracting the renewal of ticketing systems and assistance in the operation of the more than 210 vehicles in its fleet.

The supply of new solutions integrated into intelligent transport systems (ITS) includes passenger validators, which will allow users to pay with contactless transport cards, QR codes and EMV cards, physical or emulated on smartphones. Also a website with information on the lines, planned schedules and times of passage by stop. The current panels installed on the street and the automatic and validating sales equipment of the line that runs through the center of the city of Granada will be updated so that they are compatible with the new system and the new forms of payment.

Drivers, for their part, will have new equipment on board. The driver's desk will have voice and data communication with the Control Center, managing the SAE (operation assistance system) functions, sending information about the bus's positioning and service, indicating to the driver his situation of delay or advance, and managing the existing on-board information system, made up of LED screens and a public address system. The control center, thanks to the operation assistance system (SAE), will be able at all times to: know the location of the vehicles, the degree of compliance with the planned services and provide regulation tools to act on the service and improve the quality of it, if necessary. In addition, the system will have an open data interface with web services for the publication of information for possible third-party integrations.

The vehicles will also have an emergency button that will send alerts in the event of any dangerous situation, simultaneously transmitting the ambient sound to the control center. And in certain vehicles, passenger counting devices will also be incorporated. To facilitate inspection tasks, GMV will supply 30 smartphone-type terminals.

The ticketing applications will allow the configuration, exploitation and preparation of reports, as well as their integration with external tools to recharge transport cards through the Internet.

According to Carlos González Bayod, head of business development for the bus market in Spain, Portugal and Morocco at GMV's Intelligent Transport Systems, "GMV has been developing technological solutions for transport for more than 25 years, with products of its own design . It has 300 employees in the ITS sector, works with around 950 transport operators and authorities in more than 30 countries and has installed ITS solutions in more than 25,000 public transport buses worldwide. With this award, GMV once again consolidates its presence in the city of Granada as the reference supplier of ITS technology for urban transport in the city».

The company offersintegrated solutions in intelligent systems for transportpublic transport by bus using cutting-edge technologies, with in-house designed products that meet the most demanding certifications for installation in vehicles (E-mark) and based on open standards, which allows them to be interoperable and scalable, both for public and private operators . In Spain, it has ITS facilities throughout the entire national geography, with a multitude of clients in different territories.territories such as Madrid, Barcelona, Pamplona, Seville, Galicia, the Balearic Islands or Toledo.