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Saskatoon Transit, which serves the largest city in Canada’s Saskatchewan province, plans to launch mobile ticketing and contactless smart cards using a cloud-based ticketing platform-a software-as-a-service system–from UK-based Masabi. It follows the launch of a much larger service by Calgary Transit, which serves Canada’s third largest city in July 2020. Like Calgary Transit, Saskatoon Transit will install validators on its fleet of buses through Masabi.
Saskatoon Transit plans to install validators that can scan QR codes for mobile tickets as well as accepting closed-loop and open-loop contactless. Another transit agency said the validators cost $1,200 apiece, plus $425 per unit for installation.
• Saskatoon Transt
• Masabi
Another transit agency in Canada has announced it will enable mobile ticketing, along with reloadable contactless cards, citing in part the Covid-19 pandemic and the desire to reduce the use of cash, vending machines and customer interaction with agency staff.
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