Bio

Chris has forty years experience in international consulting projects on transport ticketing, ITS and information systems. Activities include: • consultancy in the use of ISO standards in open-loop ticketing and MaaS projects in Queensland, Australia, including the governance of MaaS infrastructures • support for KTB in Bangkok in the procurement of an account-based system for open-loop EMV multi-operator ticketing • technical consultancy for the Greater Anglia train operator including its ITSO smartcard scheme, mobile barcode ticket service and HCE smartphone ticketing pilot • definition of a governance and certification framework for third party access to the OpalPay payment service in New South Wales, Australia • consultancy for TfL in London on the use of contactless bank cards on rail services • technical architect for the EBRD-funded Budapest account-based multi-modal smartcard scheme including contactless EMV ticketing • project leader for the ISO TC204 WG8 Technical Report on account-based ticketing • technical consultancy for the Maltese Gozo Channel account-based ticketing project • UK National Contact Point and RDG project manager for the implementation and revision of European Commission TAP-TSI regulatory obligations • management of the UIC technical group responsible for European rail booking system interoperability standards • UK Principal Expert in the CEN and ISO public transport ITS working groups dealing with fare management and ticketing including IS 24014-1