(Finance) – Starting today, “Travel with PagoBANCOMAT”, The payment system that allows you to travel on public transport in Campania using your PagoBANCOMAT contactless payment card, without the need to have a paper ticket with you. BANCOMAT, a leading company in debit card payment services in Italy, with the support of Consorzio Unico Campania and local public transport companiesinaugurated today – at the Naples Museum station – the service, in the presence of local institutions.
The collaboration of Nexithe leading PayTech in Europe which, thanks to its technology, has made the realization of the service possible, confirming its role as enabler of that digital transformation fundamental for the modernization of the country as well as of Intesa Sanpaolowhich was the first among Italian banks to grasp the importance of using new technologies in the public transport payment sector.
With the PagoBANCOMAT card it will be possible to have access to local public transport means: EAV railway lines, ANM underground network and Alibus shuttle. The service will then also be extended to the buses of the consortium companies.
The system, through the mode of payment contactless, allows you to activate the travel ticket by bringing the card close to the terminals enabled at the entrance to the stations. The service also allows, in the event of multiple journeys during the day, to count the “taps” made by the cardholder and automatically pay the most convenient rate based on the day’s movements and the entry and exit stations. In short, the new system automatically calculates the best fare, from a single journey to an integrated ticket or an urban day ticket.
There Campania Region it is the first in Italy to enable the PagoBANCOMAT circuit for access to local public transport services. The project for the use of contactless cards, which started experimentally in November 2021 – and which has already had a very positive response in terms of use by travelers – thus grows further, thanks to the technical adaptation developed by UnicoCampania and Bancomat , offering users the ability to use virtually any payment card.
“The greater diffusion of digital payments and the resumption of travel has led to this new initiative, which we have decided to launch in the first phase in Campania, the region that recorded in 2021 one of the highest levels of use of digital payment instruments. Our presence on the national territory is widespread and today counts on 34 million cards and approximately 2 billion payments made with PagoBANCOMAT. Mobility is an essential factor in returning to normality, a concept that today takes on a more agile connotation and that sees Italians increasingly looking for safety but also for comfort. The new service starts from here today with the aim, as per our mission, to work together with the member banks so that people can have, every day and in every context, the possibility of using their purchasing power, in the most effective way. as simple, fast and safe as possible, ”he said Alessandro ZolloChief Executive Officer of BANCOMAT SpA
“Campania has always been a pioneering region in the introduction of innovative services in the world of local public transport, thanks to the important and continuous investments of the Region in this sector – underlines Gaetano Ratto, President of the Consorzio UnicoCampania – This initiative is a further piece that adds to the “mosaic” we are building, that of a reality in which technological innovation becomes an indispensable and fundamental tool to make it ever simpler, safer and more effective use of local public transport. We are therefore particularly proud that it is our region that offers this new, innovative travel ticket payment tool to Campania users and to the many tourists who visit our region. We will continue in this direction, also carrying out the MaaS project and making available to technical and commercial partners who want to invest in Campania the robust background that the UnicoCampania Consortium has built up over the years, starting from tariff integration up to the most important technological innovations ” .