İzmirim Kart | |
Location: | İzmir Province |
Launched: | June 1, 2015[1] |
Service 1: | İzmir Metro |
Service 2: | İZBAN (commuter railway) |
Service 3: | ESHOT (buses) |
Service 4: | İzdeniz (ferries) |
Service 5: | İzmir Tram |
Service 6: | Balçova Gondola |
Service 7: | Bornova Ice Sports Hall |
Service 8: | İzmir Wildlife Park |
Service 9: | İzmir International Fair |
Service 10: | Public toilets at transfer stations |
Sales Location 1: | Online |
Sales Location 2: | Newsstands |
Sales Location 3: | Stations |
Currency: | TL (pay-as-you-go), credit units (disposable) |
Stored Value: | Disposable variant only |
Credit Expiry: | 35 days for disposable variant only [2] |
Maximum Credit: | 650 TL |
Automatic Recharge: | Optional for pay-as-you-go variant |
Unlimited Use: | Depends on the variant |
Variant 1: | Pay as you go |
Variant 2: | Disposable e-ticket (bilet 35) [3] |
Variant 3: | Electronic senior pass for access-control of nationally-mandated free transport of seniors [4] |
Technology 1: | MiFare Plus with proprietary error correction scheme (pay-as-you-go and free passes) |
Technology 2: | NXP MyD (disposable variant) |
Operator: | İzmir Teknoloji A.Ş.[5] |
Manager: | İzmir Municipality |
The İzmirim Kart is a proximity type smart card used for payment in public transport of İzmir, Turkey. It gradually replaced İzmir Kentkart after Kentkart could not get the tender. Disposable variant is called bilet 35 and it is possible to buy 3, 5, 10 credit forms.
The pay-as-you-go variant of the card operates as if it were stored-value, though it is technically a deposit card. Refills are done by electronic funds transfer via VakıfBank using deposit accounts associated to supported POS terminals.
The card stores data about last few transactions to prevent fraud. Transactions otherwise commence online. If data on the card about a particular transaction mismatches data on the central database, the card may be blocked.