Indra strengthens its lidership as ticketing provider in Egypt with a contract for Cairo monorail(*)

Indra, a leading global technology and consultancy company, has strengthened its position as a leading company in fare collection solutions in Egypt after being awarded a contract to implement its ticketing technology in Cairo's Monorail with the Alstom Innovia 300TM rolling stock for the two lines(*).

The company is responsible for the design, development and supply of, automatic ticket vending machines, ticketing systems and access control systems from its Mova Collect line of own solutions, based on both contactless card and QR code and mobile phone technologies for the first time in Egypt.  The systems will be installed at the 22 stations on the line linking East Cairo to the future New Administrative Capital and at the 12 stations on the line between 6th of October City and Giza.

With the capacity to transport 45,000 people per hour in each direction, the monorail will facilitate sustainable, safe mobility for the nearly 20 million people living in the metropolitan area of the Egyptian capital, known as "Greater Cairo", the largest urban area in Africa and one of the largest metropolises in the world.

Indra's contactless technology will facilitate fast, comfortable and easy access to the monorail for travelers. And given its capacity for adaptation, scalability and interoperability, it is also prepared to facilitate the incorporation of new payment technologies or integration with other modes of transport in the future.

Indra will implement an advanced central system for the control center, equipped with its back office technology, which will centralize and integrate all the operations and sales modules, in order to provide the operator with greater control, secure access to information and flexibility to adapt to the needs and users' habits. All this will make it possible to offer the highest quality of service to travelers, reduce fraud and minimize the cost of operating and maintaining the systems. 

The new contract for the Cairo Monorail(*) is in addition to the projects successfully carried out by Indra in the country to develop and implement all the access control and automatic fare collection technology for Cairo Metro lines 1 and 2, in operation since 2013, as well as to carry out their maintenance until 2024.

In addition to strengthening its leadership in collection and mobility solutions in Egypt, with this new project Indra positions itself for future implementations of new technologies to facilitate access to transport by credit card (EMV), as well as the project of a Unified Smart Card for the transportation in the whole country in line with the latest trends in mobility.

Indra also strengthens its position in Egypt, a country with great growth potential, with important transportation infrastructure and ICT implementation mega-projects planned.

Leadership in ticketing and urban mobility

Indra is one of the world's leading ticketing companies, with its own product and projects for the metros of Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Lisboa, Santiago de Chile, Riyadh, Mumbai, the St Louis light rail, the trains of Buenos Aires, the suburban railroad of Mexico City and the Sètif tramway in Algeria, among many others.

The company is currently developing one of the largest contracts tendered so far in the world to implement all systems for ticket sales and access control in the new public transport system being created in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Indra has also implemented its ticketing technology on the Mecca–Medina high-speed railway, as a leading technology provider within the Spanish consortium.

The company’s ticketing technology is part of Indra Mova Collect, which employs the latest technologies for transportation revenue management with the utmost reliability and flexibility for clients and passengers. These technologies include smart ticketing, a cutting-edge toll system, and a unified multi-modal back office system. With a 4.0 mobility approach, Indra offers comprehensive, multi-modal, barrier-free transportation services, mobile and bank card payments and new validation schemes, such as Pay as You Go, Account Based or Be in Be Out.

Over 100 cities worldwide rely on Indra to improve their urban mobility and transport, including cities all over the world such as London, Amsterdam, Sydney, Madrid, Dublin, Medellin and Manila. The technology applied to traffic management and urban transport facilitates a more secure, efficient and sustainable mobility while contributing to reducing traffic and the costs involved, minimizing polluting emissions and promoting integrated urban transport services.

Indra is a leading global technology engineering company for the aerospace, defence and mobility sectors. It is its clients' principal technology partner for digitization and key operations worldwide. Its team of experts and its in-depth knowledge of those businesses and the latest technology, and its leadership in major European innovation programs and projects to design the next generation of technological solutions, give it a differential offering and enable Indra to lead unique, highly innovative projects that will transform the future of these sectors on a global scale in the coming years.

About Indra

Indra (www.indracompany.com) is one of the leading global technology and consulting companies and the technological partner for core business operations of its customers worldwide. It is a world-leader in providing proprietary solutions in specific segments in Transport and Defence markets, and a leading firm in Digital Transformation and Information Technologies in Spain and Latin America through its affiliate Minsait. Its business model is based on a comprehensive range of proprietary products, with a high-value, end-to-end focus and with a high innovation component. In the 2021 financial year, Indra achieved revenue of €3.390 billion, with over 52,000 employees, a local presence in 46 countries and business operations in over 140 countries.