ACS

ACS helps passenger transportation operators to improve their productivity, profitability and client satisfaction by delivering comprehensive, client-specific solutions based on leading-edge technologies and a powerful management system.

Mass transit operators all over the world know they can rely on ACS. The company’s systems and services are used by over a thousand municipal, regional and national operators who together run more than 150,000 pieces of equipment (automated ticket vending machines, validators, booking office machines, portable inspector terminals and access gates enabling around 50 million passengers a day to use bus services, underground railways, and trains. Over the decades, ACS has established itself as the world’s leading supplier of complex, networked solutions for managing fare collection for public transportation systems.

It began in Mönchengladbach in 1978 with the development and serial production of a ticket machine, and in almost three decades we have become one of the world’s leading developers, producers and providers of ticketing technology thanks to a wealth of ideas in engineering and strategic foresight in management. Considering everything that has moved us forward in the last 30 years, our focus has always been on one thing: our clients and what they expect from us. However, a modern and innovative company can no longer do justice to its clients’ demands these days if all it does is developing and providing “front end devices” on rail platforms or in vehicles. The focus has to be on the big picture – in other words the initiation and architecture of complete systems that meet the needs of our clients. For the people who work for Scheidt & Bachmann this means providing a service right from the start – from the initial discussion with the client and a needs analysis through  the implementation and maintenance of tailored system solutions.