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Canada’s BC Transit plans to launch open-loop payments with Cubic Transportation Systems’ SaaS-based Umo platform. But Cubic only recently announced support for the technology with Umo.

Key Data:

• Document: Preliminary milestone implementation schedule

• Document: Base implementation fees

• Document: Cubic price bid

Organizations Mentioned:

• BC Transit (Br. Columbia)
• Cubic
• Masabi
• Littlepay
• RTCSNV (Las Vegas)
• WMATA (Wash., D.C.)
• MCTS (Milwaukee)
• CapMetro (Austin)

Canadian transit authority BC Transit has announced that in “coming months” it will prepare to launch open-loop payments, as its vendor, Cubic Transportation Systems, upgrades and tests its software-as-a-service fare platform Umo to make the technology available.

Cubic has enabled open loop for years for large transit agencies via its enterprise business, featuring its Urban Mobility Back Office. But it has struggled to add open-loop capability to its SaaS-based Umo platform–as it seeks to keep pace with rival Masabi in the SaaS-ticketing market

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