Sector Practice · Transport & Ticketing

National Transport & Ticketing Architecture

Enterprise architecture for national transport programmes: Next Generation Ticketing, Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), PCI/P2PE payment systems, and passenger applications at national scale.

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Architecture for national-scale transport programmes.

6+ Years at NTA

5 Design Authorities Chaired

PCI/P2PE Certified Payment Architecture

The Challenge

Why transport technology architecture requires independent oversight.

Transport technology failures are public. A broken ticketing rollout, a payment system that goes out of PCI scope, or a vehicle tracking platform that cannot be maintained by the supplier cost programmes months of recovery time and damage public trust.

National transport schemes involve multiple concurrent workstreams, multi-supplier contracts, and regulatory obligations that interact in ways no single supplier can fully own. Transport technology architecture covers the design of systems that move people: ticketing platforms, real-time vehicle tracking, passenger information, regulatory systems, and the IoT field device networks that underpin them.

Representative Clients

National Transport Authority (NTA)
TII / EFLOW (Tolling & Transport Infrastructure)
National Driver Licence Service (NDLS)
Road Safety Authority (RSA)

Capabilities

Transport Architecture Workstreams

01 / WORKSTREAM

Next Generation Ticketing

Account-based ticketing architecture, PCI/P2PE payment compliance, mobile and web applications, field validators, and AWS-hosted cloud services for national transport programmes.

In practice: Design Authority and enterprise architecture for NTA's NGT programme, covering validators, on-bus devices, Leap Card integration, and P2PE payment processing.

02 / WORKSTREAM

Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL)

Real-time vehicle tracking data streams, GTFS-RT feed generation, passenger information systems, and GPRS/4G field device integration across bus fleets.

In practice: Solution architecture for NTA central AVL platform, connecting on-bus GPS units with stop displays and third-party journey planners.

03 / WORKSTREAM

Licensing & Regulatory Systems

High-volume citizen transaction platforms, identity verification, biometrics integration, and core back-office architecture for driver licensing and vehicle regulation.

In practice: Architecture lead for NDLS driver licensing platform, modernising core licensing workflows and secure payment processing.

04 / WORKSTREAM

Payment & PCI P2PE Compliance

Point-to-point encryption architecture for validators and handheld devices, removing merchant network from PCI DSS scope.

In practice: Designing P2PE boundaries for validator field hardware so PAN data is encrypted at point of interaction across public transport fleets.

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Discuss your transport technology programme

Whether you need an experienced architect for a ticketing rollout, AVL integration, or PCI/P2PE payment compliance, we'd like to hear from you.

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