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The UK’s Department for Transport is one of the latest agencies seeking to tackle fare evasion, which costs public transit operators and authorities billions of dollars every year globally. Several U.S. transit agencies have installed new gates or plan to do so to try to curb the problem.
In the UK, ticketing revenue across the system was £12.3 billion, collected from April 2025 to March 2026, according to the UK Office of Rail and Road. Losses of as much as £400 million translate to a fare evasion rate of less than 4%.
• Department for Transport
• MTA (New York)
• BART (San Francisco)
• Sound Transit
• PATH (NY/NJ)
• Rail Delivery Group
• Northern Trains
• East Midlands Railway
• Cubic
• Chiltern Railways
• TfL (London)
• Indra
• Vix
• Gunnebo
• Scheidt & Bachmann
• TfWM (West Midlands)
• TfW (Wales)
The UK’s Department for Transport is among the most recent transport agencies to try to tackle fare evasion, joining other agencies, including in the U.S., attempting to stem losses from barrier jumpers and other ticket dodgers. While the exact number of new gates the UK will roll out with the new funding is unknown, Mobility Payments has learned that it could be as many as 200.
The situation for the Department for Transport, or DfT, and UK rail operators is not unique. DfT announced last month that six rail operators in England will receive a total of £33.4 million (US$45.2 million) in funding for work considered to be an early phase of fare evasion countermeasures.
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