The cooperation with NVS GmbH is not limited to the area of local public transport with ICA Traffic, but also covers the area of parking management with its affiliate ICA Parking. For more than 15 years, the state capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has been operating its own parking spaces. In 2003, ICA Parking supplied the first facilities for the management of parking spaces, which already worked with contactless RFID cards instead of simple barcodes on paper. If you park your car in Schwerin and get a chip card from the card dispenser at the entrance terminal which you then pay at the automated pay station, you will be using a facility supplied by ICA. Benefits right from the start: As a reusable medium, a chip card incurs low maintenance costs and offers great liability.

In 2011, NVS planned to acquire ticket vending machines for stops, trams and buses. At that time, NVS visited potential suppliers, including ICA. In the following tender, ICA prevailed over its competitors and was awarded the contract to deliver the DUALIS system. Meanwhile, these machines have been in successful operation for many years.

In the context of the digitalisation of the NVS channels of distribution, a meeting with the management of NVS was planned for November 2018. At this meeting, it was discussed how the existing ticket machines could be made fit for the future while at the same time exploring new channels of distribution. After intensive discussions between the management of NVS and the sales management of ICA Traffic, an immediate decision was made to enter into a letter of intent on this subject. In a first subsequent step, the ticket machines were retrofitted with contactless readers for payment by cards.

In February 2019, ICA was commissioned to deliver a ticket sales app, which has been available in the stores for iOS and Android smartphones since 9 September 2019. Thus, NVS had a mobile app for its passengers after just six months of development. Ticketing Inside was created in close cooperation between the two contracting parties. This was made possible by agile software development using the Scrum method.