In recent years, the National Integrated Ticketing Company (ENBI) has developed comprehensive technological solutions that increase the supply of means to the population, making people's mobility across the country increasingly easier, safer and faster. At ANGOTIC 2024, the institution linked to the Ministry of Transport showed visitors how cutting-edge technology helps to develop the National Integrated Ticketing System (SNBI).
The Giramais pass is one of these technological solutions that brought agility and efficiency to the public transport system in the country. To pass through the turnstiles, users simply have to hold the pass to the electronic validators installed on public buses that circulate in Luanda and other areas of the country, avoiding delays and long queues to access the units. The installation of these digital mechanisms was just the first step in a strategy to modernize the sector's technology.
According to Celso Ferreira, spokesperson for ENBI, the institution “will soon present the prototype of the mobile application with which users will be able to register and issue a pass”. In practice, he describes, “passengers will fill out a form in the application, make payment via the EMIS network channels, and collect the physical pass at a designated point”.
From an operational point of view, ENBI's stand at ANGOTIC 2024 also demonstrated how technology is being put at the service of monitoring and planning the public transport system. From the SNBI control room, ENBI has access to bus routes in real time, the departure and arrival times of each unit, the number of buses in circulation, the number of passengers per vehicle and even the busiest points affluence. Currently, SNBI integrates all public bus operators in Luanda, Benguela, Huila. It is also in Huambo and the testing phase has begun in Malanje. Soon, it should expand to Cabinda.
