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The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System and a smaller affiliated transit agency are planning to introduce open-loop payments in April–deep in the heart of car-centric Southern California. MTS will offer open loop as a single-ride option to its much-used closed-loop Pronto card.

Key Data:

Document: INIT Pricing for open-loop add-on

Document: Bids in 2018 for MTS’ ABT fare system

Organizations Mentioned:

• MTS (San Diego)
• INIT
• Cubic
• Conduent
• Scheidt & Bachmann

 

The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, or MTS, and a smaller affiliated transit agency are planning to introduce open-loop payments in April–deep in the heart of car-centric Southern California.

The open-loop rollout is part of an account-based fare system, which MTS and its main vendor, Germany-based INIT, began rolling out a little less than five years ago.

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