Delhi Government’s Common Mobility Card, popularly known as the ‘ONE’ has been awarded as the ‘Best Intelligent Transport System Project’ by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on Sunday at the 12th Urban Mobility India Conference and Exhibition.

In August 2018, the Delhi Government in collaboration with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) launched the Common Mobility Card as ‘ONE’, with the tagline ‘One Delhi, One Ride’. With this, Delhi became the first city in India to have launched a Common Mobility Card which can be used across all forms of public transport.

“Congrats ! It’s a privilege for Delhi Government that our Common Mobility Card project — ‘ONE’ has been awarded the “Best Intelligent Public Transport” project today by Government of India. Delhi is the first city to have launched such a card to provide seamless public transport experience,” Transport minister Kailash Gahlot tweeted.

To promote the usage of this card among the public, the government also provides 10 percent discount in DTC bus tickets for purchasing ticket through the one card. The Transport department, Delhi Government is planning to make the card usable in auto/e-rickshaws/taxi journeys too. 

“As per the recommendations of the Awards selection committee, the ministry has decided to confer ‘Commendable Initiative Award’ for your project on ‘Launch of Common Mobility Card in Delhi across buses and metro’ under the category of Best Intelligent Transport System Project,” said the statement issued by the transport minister.

The Award was given to DIMTS (Delhi Integrated Multi-modal Transit Systems) Limited, a Delhi government joint venture, which led the project integration work for Common Mobility Card.

“The award is a deserving recognition for Delhi Government’s efforts to provide the people of Delhi a seamless, high-quality travel experience in Delhi’s public transport system. We’ll continue to transform the Public Transport System in Delhi with such innovative and technology driven initiatives”, said Gahlot.

Delhi’s public transport commuters currently use the ONE card not just in Metro, but also in buses through Electronic Ticketing Machines (ETM), at a 10 per cent discount. Within the first three months of its launch, the ONE card, was used to pay for about 9 lakh trips, said the officials.

Building on the launch of the ONE card and its objective to provide seamless public transport experience, in March 2019, the Delhi government also launched Delhi’s first Common Mobility app - ONE DELHI App, developed by Transport Department. The One Delhi App contains: multi-modal journey planner with navigation feature, real-time expected time of arrival (ETA) of all cluster buses, route visualizer for all Metro and bus routes on map and Auto detection of nearest bus stops.