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ACCEPT.INSTITUTE was founded in November 2017 and is the successor to the Open Ticketing Institute (OTI). OTI (founded in 2010) was the outgrowth of an initiative from Translink from the Netherlands.
The organisation of the ACCEPT.INSTITUTE consists of a Supervisory Board, Management Board and secretary.
The Supervisory Board consists of:
chairman
The Management Board:
Janine Zwiers
secretary of the board
The ACCEPT Advisory Council is an external council that advices the board of the Institute and consists of the following 5 members:
- National Transport Authority (NTA) from Ireland;
- Ministry of Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia **(Ministerium für Verkehr des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen) from Germany;
- Rejsekort & Rejseplan A/S from Denmark;
- Translink from the Netherlands; and
- Transport Scotland from Scotland.
** The Ministry is represented by the transport authority of Aachen, the Aachener Verkehrsverbund (AVV), who will coordinate closely with the Ministry.
In this overview the history of ACCEPT.INSTITUTE is presented.