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The Netherlands makes some progress in adoption of open-loop payments, but still has a ways to go to increase penetration of the technology before retiring its long-established closed-loop card.
• Chart: Open-Loop Share of Total Trips. Through May 2025
• Table: Open-Loop Stats, through May. 2025
• Translink (Netherlands)
• NS (Netherlands)
• Rebel Group
Dutch public transport riders tapped with their debit cards for a growing number of transactions this spring, and ticketing officials kept the March 2027 stop date to finally retire the country’s 20-year-old closed-loop OV-chip card, Mobility Payments has learned.
Open-loop payments, while failing to increase in May of this year, did substantially grow from March through April, as well as overall for the three-month period ending in May (see chart and table on this page).
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