FIRST WORKSHOP ON INTEGRATED
TRANSPORTATION PAYMENT SYSTEMS (ITPS)

February 27, 2009,
UMass Club, Boston, USA.

QUESTIONS FOR BREAKOUT SESSIONS (Preliminary)

The following is a tentative list of questions and topics to be discussed within the scope of our breakout sessions. 

• To what extent do current transit or road tolling systems preserve customer privacy?
• To what extent are customers willing to sacrifice privacy for improved service?
• What (private) data is actually needed to improve service?
• What are the unique challenges of incorporating privacy into existing and future payment systems for transportation (e.g., in comparison to payment systems for e-commerce)?
• Will open-road tolling change the privacy decision? 

• What are the costs of security and privacy? 
• What is the magnitude of these costs and how significant is the cost for incorporating security/privacy features into multi-modal transportation payments cards and other media?
• How much will customers pay for improved security/privacy?
• How will revenues collected be partitioned for mobile-phone based transit payments? 
• What are the benefits of investments in security and privacy? 
• Do these benefits outweigh the costs?  
• What metrics might be used to assess these benefits and costs?

• How much complexity is required on future RFID-based transit cards?
• Will NFC phones largely replace cards?
• How could long-range readers improve passenger flow and accessibility in subway stations?
• Will long-range readers introduce eaves-dropping and other vulnerabilities?
• What are the technologic challenges of multi-modal payment systems?