Directions of broadening the range of tariff systems functionalities in urban transport

The systems of selling tickets for urban transport services, realized basing on paper tickets, is severely limited, both within the aspect of collecting data concerning the services demand, and as far as the possibilities to diversify the prices and to shape transport tariffs are concerned. The development of the advanced IT technologies enable the use of telematic technologies in tariff systems of the local collective transport. Investing in the modern payment systems for the urban services is connected with considerable financial contributions from public resources, and the expected effect of the implementation is the defined functionality which is to substantially support the process of pricing and of transport offer optimization. The goal of the article is to present the possibilities resulting from the use of telematic tools in the process of shaping transport tariffs and to present the potential and the desired directions of the changes in the tariff systems of the local collective transport