Only a small portion of the current public transport smart cards is used weekly. Photo ANP / Robin Lonkhuijsen
Only one in five active OV chip card is used weekly to travel in public transport. That’s about three million cards, as a spokesperson of the company behind the cards know today. The remaining cards are used less frequently, are gathering dust at home or to be purchased yet.
In total, last year 14.6 million active cards. That’s about two-thirds of all the cards were ever issued. The cards who still sit in the machine at the station, incidentally, are classified as active, so a number of cards it makes sense that they are not used regularly.
Of the active cards are 7 9 million units in the name of the traveler who uses them, while the rest is anonymous traveled. Since the introduction of the system in 2006, Translink – the company responsible for the electronic payment system – 21.9 million cards issued.
Translink was 2.15 billion in 2014 to process transactions. This not only involves travelers Out, but also cards that are upgraded or where new products are put on. The number of transactions is thus 13 percent higher than in 2013. Since July last year, when it disappeared paper card, the smart card is the only currency in the train.
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