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State public transit officials in Connecticut plan a statewide open-loop payments service with fare capping. But they won’t be able buy their technology through the Cal-ITP procurement program, like they did for a pilot in 2024.
• Document: RFP, CTDOT statewide open loop and mobile-ticketing system, Jan. 2026
• Document: Preproposal meeting attendees list, Feb. 2026
• Document: FTA 3rd-party contracting guidance, p60, Jan. 2025
• CTDOT (Connecticut)
• Cal-ITP
• Federal Transit Admin.
• CTtransit
• Cubic
• Masabi
• Indra
• INIT
• Scheidt & Bachmann
• Kuba
• Arrive (Flowbird)
• LG CNS
• Token Transit
• moovel
• Modeshift
• SEAT (Connecticut)
• Estuary Transit
• Aurionpro
• Littlepay
Public transit officials in the U.S. state of Connecticut are persuing an ambitious plan to roll out open-loop payments statewide, including enabling fare capping and setting up a concessions scheme linked to credit and debit cards throughout the state.
The project is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S. But officials say they can’t buy their open-loop technology from the same place they did for an open-loop pilot launched in October 2024–the California Integrated Travel Project, or Cal-ITP, Mobility Payments has learned.
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