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A look at the high tech ticketing of tomorrow

Could the palm of your hand replace your ticket? Cubic is looking at new ways to identify people, assessing different forms of biometrics - and palm vein technology appears to have emerged as the front runner. The technology scans the normally invisible vein pattern of the palm, back of the hand and fingers and is said to be highly accurate and highly resistant to counterfeiting. One of the ideas behind it is to reduce the “fumble factor” at ticket gates.

We've read it in: Passenger Transport, October 6 2017 (Issue 169), Page 18