Almex UK
Almex has achieved a milestone in the UK with its latest state-of-the-art ticket printing equipment. The Swindon-based ticket equipment supplier has now taken orders as well as implementing more than 4000 ITSO certified ticketing machines into the UK transport industry - achieved in less than three years.
This firmly places Almex at the leading edge of ITSO compliant revenue control systems. Sales into public transport operators cover every corner of the UK, from Scotland to Wales and from South East England to South West England. Working with national and regional bus operators, Almex has implemented driver operated or portable solutions for their customers and the result has been hugely successful. Almost every customer has quite rightly been exploiting the convenience of adding ITSO certified portable ticketing systems to their driver fixed units.
The 'almex.mobile' is still the only device available on the market, as a portable, meeting the ITSO standard. The ITSO certified portable provides unified revenue data to a single web served back office system. Almex is becoming increasingly adept at implementing ITSO systems due to the increased technical complexity and number of stakeholders they entail.
The Almex team continues to grow in the UK. Almex has recently further strengthened its team in Scotland to have more locally based systems engineers on the ground as the Transport Scotland implementation project continues to intensify. In Scotland Almex is implementing an advanced E-Ticketing-solution for more than half of all buses in the country. Through the Transport Scotland project, Almex is working closely with First Group and Arriva as well as other operators including West Coast Motors.
Almex continues to benefit from the innovative technology being applied by its parent company, Hoeft & Wessel, to successful bus, rail, airline and retail projects around Europe. Each year more than GBP 7 m is invested in research and development which sets the pace in the company's technological orientation with one-third of Hoeft & Wessel total workforce employed in R&D. With ITSO Certification under the company's belt, the Almex product range will continue to develop with the evolution of customer requirements.Barcode reading, near field communication and next generation wireless communication are all areas that Almex, through Hoeft & Wessel, is at present investigating - to meet and satisfy the potential benefits of its customers.
Almex provides public transport corporations with a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for all ticketing and telematics needs. Mobile or stationary, bus or rail, train station or airport, Almex supplies individually customised solutions - speedily and reliably. Thanks to its proven products and open standards, Almex provides its customers with a high degree of investment protection. ITSO, VDV-KA, Calypso, DAX and CUSS are the primary foundations of the solutions on offer. Almex proactively helps to shape these standards; accordingly, the company commits itself to an open and standardised system world.
Almex solutions excel on account of their seamless integration into existing customer systems. This saves operating costs in the long term and ensures speedy, effective processes. The key success factor is simple operation of Almex systems by users. In implementing its hardware and software solutions, Almex relies on and favours the universal design approach. The resulting high degree of acceptance of Almex solutions by passengers and personnel ensures customer satisfaction and low operating costs.
Almex, a business unit of the German IT and Engineering Group Hoeft & Wessel, manages all activities in the United Kingdom from its Swindon location.
For more information visit: www.almex.co.uk
