Supervisor wants to ov-chipkaart accelerated mandatory for train journey

Supervisor ACM wants the government to accelerate the ov-chipkaart fully enter and the paper ticket dropped. The paper card would be competitors of the NS behind. The NS wants the ov-chipkaart mid next year required.

The reason that supervisor ACM of the paper card, is that the NS gives more information than other carriers, writes the AD Monday in the paper. The NS need to measure how many passengers with a paper TRAIN ticket on routes of other carriers travel, after which proceeds are shared. The company can information about other pathways, however, also be used in procurement, argues the ACM. How the NS the benefit, remains unclear.

Through the paper card to purchase a ov-chip card mandatory for all travel in the train, will void this advantage for the NS and is competition better is possible, so is the advice. It is still unclear whether the government and the NS, the opinion will follow. An anonymous director of an alternative carrier says in the AD that the NS and the Ministry of Infrastructure ‘two hands on one belly’. The advice goes to the Second Room, but the report is not there yet. The advice is also not yet published.

At this time an ov-chip card be used for travel with the train, but it is not yet mandatory. The responsible state secretary Mansveld wants to first investigate whether people who have little to do with the train travel and tourists do not suffer from the requirement of the ov-chipkaart.

The new chip card has been the subject of debate. The map makes it possible to keep track of who is where to travel, what questions about the privacy evokes. In addition, the old ov-chipkaart, which is now being phased out, many years ago cracked.