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Consultants from Smartran have had a key role in planning and implementing a residents' privilege card for the London Borough of Hillingdon: the HillingdonFirst card.
Kevin Farquharson present at the first important milestone of the HillingdonFirst card
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Hillingdon wins prestigious awards for its innovative implementation of resident discounted parking linked to the Hillingdon First Card: Click Here to read the report.

London Councils and Capital Ambition chose Smartran to build on previous work and undertake a recent feasibility study into the case for a London Cards framework. The report was completed in November 2009. The study includes a borough business case model for up to 15 applications with a confirmed payback of 2-3 years for borough led schemes.

Hillindgon Council chose Smartran to plan and implement the largest multi-application resident card in England – HillingdonFirstSmartran helped Hillingdon identify the key applications, before moving on to design interfaces between systems and to define new processes for library, parking and customer services.

Assertis has appointed Smartran to provide technical advice and consultancy in the development of a new web-based ticketing system.  Smartran has been retained for it’s knowledge and experience in rail ticketing, ticketing systems and accreditation.

London Borough of Waltham Forest has entered the third year of operation of their resident card scheme, Smartran, the smart card specialist company responsible for the successful launch of the scheme, and London Borough of Waltham Forest have agreed a new two year contract to the borough resident card scheme, the OneCard.  The contract includes additional functionality to the card scheme, as well as ongoing support and assistance.

In 2009, Smartran was appointed to undertake a smart card feasibility study for London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.  This is being taken forward as the basis of a new youth and resident card scheme.

Kevin Farquharson is a regular conference speaker including the Transport Ticketing event on 27 & 28th January 2010. Kevin has covered the opportunities to combine transport ticketing with other applications on one card and growing deployment of cards in schools. See www.transport-ticketing.com

Smartran presented at Pre-paid 08 and 09, Railway Improvement Conference and the SCNF Transport Smart Card event in Sept 09.

Smartran has recently produced a report on the costs and business case for multi-application resident cards. The report is published on the London Connects website and can be found at: Library-leisure card Cost and Biz Case Report v0-7

Smartran completed an eight month project for the London Borough of Waltham Forest which culminated in the rollout of the OneCard smart card to tenants in the borough. Initially the smart card was used to enable tenants to make rent and council tax payments. The project provided the borough with a platform to rollout further smart card based applications to schools, licence holders, residents and traders.

For more details of the OneCard use our Contact Form or see http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/index/news/onecard.htm.

NATIONAL SMART CARD PROJECT

Smartran has undertaken the management and co-ordination of dissemination of output from the National smart card Project (NSCP).  This work has involved co-ordination of editorial panel work, progress tracking, management reporting, co-ordination of suppliers creating CD and web-based output channels and overall documentation control.  The completed output has been delivered by CD and web extranet to scope, budget and schedule by all the suppliers being managed.

SPONSORSHIP NEWS

  1. Smartran is delighted to have supported the BIZ Theatre School summer productions which have raised over £14000 for Chase (the Children’s Hospice charity based in Guildford).

  2. Smartran has sponsored drivers under 26 to prepare for and take the Advanced Driving test, through Guildford Group of Advanced Motorists.

  3. Smartran has made donations to other good causes including Haiti Appeal and Alzheimer’s Society.

 

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Kevin Farquharson

Marketing Director

Erika Vincent

Senior Consultants

Philip Weerokody

Steve Beecroft

Maddy Coates

Jeanine de Groot

Associate Consultants

Dr Umar Khan-Cheema

Darren Michael            

Steve Benson

Associate Analyst

Mark Conway

Project Administrator

Gillian Welsh

RECRUITMENT

Smartran is frequently seeking experienced degree educated technical consultants and project managers with excellent communication, process design and written skills. These interesting and challenging roles are with small teams providing a specialist consultancy service to one of our Blue Chip clients. Part-time associate roles may also become available

If you are interested in finding out more, please use our Contact Form or call Smartran on:
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