Inject and Sustain Sustainability (iS2) in automatic fare collection projects

Background Sustainable public transport is not an option; it is a necessity [1]. In a media competition run by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), we introduced an award-winning design model of financially secure and sustainable automatic fare collection (AFC) [2]. In the public transport industry, AFC commonly refers to transit providers’ automated ticketing systems for collecting fares. We aimed to expand this design model and provide a practical training strategy (incorporating AFC subject knowledge and pedagogic backed training) to answer the challenge of inter-disciplinary capability in knowledge transfer for sustaining sustainability within the project and beyond.