Contact-less technology has been chosen to automate the Cyclocity self-service bike rental application in the Greater Lyon area, France. More than 2000 bikes are available from vélo’v rental kiosks located at strategic points in the city.

Customers rent vélo’v bikes using an application based on ASK contact-less technology. The application employs contact-less smart cards for long-term subscribers, contact-less paper tickets for short-term use, and a new Ticket Dispensing Machine for a high-tech, reliable and modern urban experience.
For 5 years, ASK has been providing contact-less Técély cards for the city of Lyon, where cardholders use a single multi-modal card to ride buses, tramways and the Metro. Técély cardholders can now use the same card to rent vélo’v bikes. Customers who do not have a Técély card are simply issued with C.ticket®, ASK contactless paper ticket at vélo’v kiosks.

“JCDecaux’s new service is a real treat in large cities where traffic jams, pollution and stress tend to increase every day” says Jean Sureaud, Sales Manager at ASK. “Greater Lyon and JCDecaux, the world number 2 outdoor advertising company, have worked to pioneer a new type of mobility in the city, and we are proud to be involved in this successful project.”

ASK’s contact-less Automatic Fare Collection technology is used in mass transit applications worldwide. “For every module of this system, we aim to work with well-known partners, each an expert in their respective domain. ASK’s experience with contact-less cards and hardware, and its successful record with mass transit applications, is exactly what we are looking for. The timely arrival of ASK’s new Ticket Dispenser Machine for contact-less paper tickets was clearly a factor in our decision” says Jacques Le Gars, Director of New Technologies at JCDecaux.