Elektra (smartcard)
Encyclopedia
ELEKTRA is a planned smartcard-based fare payment system to be introduced in Budapest
, Hungary
, sometime in the near future. ELEKTRA stands for elektronikus chipkártya rendszer in Hungarian
, which means electronic chip-card system.
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, sometime in the near future. ELEKTRA stands for elektronikus chipkártya rendszer in Hungarian
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
, which means electronic chip-card system.