Smart card

Smart card

1) Plastic card containing magnetic information (or incorporating a micro-chip) as with credit cards and capable of accepting and storing data. To be used with new-style digital tachographs from 2003 for electronically recording driving time and driver's working activities, etc.

See also DIC. 'Incremental smart cards' can be charged with a cash value by a bank machine, and can then be 'decremented' by a given amount when presented to an automatic machine in return for a bus trip, replenishment of fuel, or a seat at the cinema, etc.

Source: David Lowe. The Dictionary of Transport and Logistics. Kogan Page, 2002. – P.224 (288 p.)