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Urbana single city card

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 11 claims and 7 source dossiers.

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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-bb746dedd1b3a91d quantitative
Urbana is Ljubljana's single contactless smart card, introduced gradually from 2009
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The OECD case study dates the gradual launch to spring 2009; the operator describes Urbana as a no-contact smart card.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation — Urbana single city card system
  2. Javni Holding Ljubljana — Single city card URBANA
Claim 2 clm-4838117cfcf3959c descriptive
paying for city buses, parking, the BicikeLJ bike-share, the castle funicular and city-library borrowing
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snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The operator lists buses, the castle cable car, parking and the City Library; the encyclopedia entry lists BicikeLJ among the services.
Caveat
The operator's current page no longer lists the bike-share; it is named in the encyclopedia entry and, as 'renting city bikes', in the OECD case study.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Javni Holding Ljubljana — Single city card URBANA
  2. Wikipedia — Urbana (payment card)
Claim 3 clm-6b788fd2649bfd5e descriptive
on one MIFARE chip
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The encyclopedia entry names the chip technology.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Wikipedia — Urbana (payment card)
Claim 4 clm-d3853b1ba59df160 descriptive
calls Ljubljana one of the first cities in Europe to introduce uniform payments for city services
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snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
This is the operator's own characterisation, quoted as such.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Javni Holding Ljubljana — Single city card URBANA
  2. Ljubljanski potniški promet (LPP) — Single city card URBANA
Claim 5 clm-1ad62ea64f4a8a4d quantitative
Since November 2023 the buses also take Visa and Mastercard bank cards, phones and watches directly
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snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The report of 29 November 2023 says that from that Tuesday LPP buses accept Visa and Mastercard, also via a phone or smartwatch.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. N1 Slovenija — bank cards accepted on LPP buses (29 November 2023)
Claim 6 clm-c2583c2cb932c856 quantitative
only Urbana or its mobile app keeps the free 90-minute transfer
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The operator states that bank-card payment allows no free change within 90 minutes; the 2025 report says the Urbana app allows unlimited transfers within an hour and a half.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Ljubljanski potniški promet (LPP) — Payment methods
  2. N1 Slovenija — LPP ends pay-by-call, recommends the Urbana app (6 January 2025)
Claim 7 clm-c208fc6c30e21492 quantitative
More than 800,000 Urbana cards were in circulation and actively used by the time of the OECD case study, against a city of about 250,000 inhabitants
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Both figures are the case study's own; it does not print its date but describes ten years of operation.
Caveat
This is a figure from around the system's tenth year; no newer card count has been published.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation — Urbana single city card system
Claim 8 clm-3b2a38afb2d67f50 descriptive
the card was also linked to Slovenia's national integrated public transport ticket, railways included
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The case study says Urbana was connected to the state-level single ticket and used for all operators, including railways.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation — Urbana single city card system
Claim 9 clm-55ca714b24896680 quantitative
The €2.4 million start-up cost covered hardware, software and 200,000 cards handed out free to first users
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The case study gives the implementation cost and what it included.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation — Urbana single city card system
Claim 10 clm-d3cb018407643ff8 descriptive
Winning residents over to a single card was the hardest part
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The case study names convincing users as the highest challenge.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation — Urbana single city card system
Claim 11 clm-1839feffb4953359 descriptive
adoption needed a year-long transition and heavy public communication before legacy systems could be retired
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The case study describes continuous public information and a transition of about one year from the old systems.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation — Urbana single city card system

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Javni Holding Ljubljana (JHL)
Actor types
utility
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
≈€2.4M initial implementation
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

7 source dossiers

Javni Holding Ljubljana — Single city card URBANA jhl.si · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-d8ade04c4fb6660c
Publisher
Name not classified · jhl.si
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web-page · language not classified
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Updated
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-10-04
Dossier created
2026-10-04
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Operator page: buses, castle cable car, parking and the City Library on one no-contact card; free bus changes within 90 minutes; the operator calls Ljubljana one of the first European cities with uniform payment for city services.

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Claims linked
OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation — Urbana single city card system oecd-opsi.org · 6 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-c112fd07513bb04a
Publisher
Name not classified · oecd-opsi.org
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
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2026-10-04
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Case study submitted by the operator: gradual launch in spring 2009; extension to parking, city bikes, libraries and funiculars; link to the national integrated ticket; 800,000+ cards in active use; €2.4M start-up cost including 200,000 free cards; a transition of about one year.

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Claims linked
Wikipedia — Urbana (payment card) en.wikipedia.org · 2 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-0437f9c701fcc4ac
Publisher
Name not classified · en.wikipedia.org
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
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2026-10-04
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MIFARE DESFire EV1 technology; 2009 gradual rollout; service-by-service expansion history.

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Claims linked
Ljubljanski potniški promet (LPP) — Single city card URBANA lpp.si · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-683cacb9c6dd0b75
Publisher
Name not classified · lpp.si
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
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Operator claim: 'one of the first cities in Europe to introduce uniform payments for city services'; 90-minute transfer feature.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Ljubljanski potniški promet (LPP) — Payment methods lpp.si · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-7708bfd672fc30d3
Publisher
Name not classified · lpp.si
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web-page · language not classified
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Record last verified
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2026-10-04
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Operator page on fares: Urbana card (€2.00, single fare €1.50 covering up to 90 minutes with changes), Visa and Mastercard payment cards including mobile wallets — with no free change within 90 minutes — and the Urbana mobile app.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
N1 Slovenija — bank cards accepted on LPP buses (29 November 2023) n1info.si · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-815bca03f496579a
Publisher
Name not classified · n1info.si
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2023-11-29
Updated
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Record last verified
2026-10-04
Dossier created
2026-10-04
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After 14 years LPP updated its payment system: from Tuesday, rides can be paid with Visa and Mastercard bank cards, also via phone or smartwatch; the city says it is the first in the region to allow it, while still supporting Urbana.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
N1 Slovenija — LPP ends pay-by-call, recommends the Urbana app (6 January 2025) n1info.si · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-55f8e35039cdd931
Publisher
Name not classified · n1info.si
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-01-06
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Record last verified
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2026-10-04
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LPP ended payment by calling 1899 and recommends the Urbana app, renewed in summer 2023, which pays by Bluetooth and allows unlimited transfers within an hour and a half; physical Urbana cards remain widely used.

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Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.