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Transport for New South Wales in Sydney is the latest agency–and one of the largest users of open-loop payments–to enable riders to receive their concessionary discounts when they tap their credit or debit cards or credentials in digital wallets. Users must have already verified their eligibility for the concession before linking their card or credential.
Transport for NSW has 834,000 active Gold Card concessions or riders and another 134,000 active Concession Opal cardholders in other categories, totaling nearly one million.
• Transport for NSW (Sydney)
• Cubic
• INIT
• MTA (New York)
• PSTA (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
• Cal-ITP
• Littlepay
• WMATA (Washington, D.C.)
Transport for New South Wales in Sydney, one of the largest users of open-loop payments globally, plans to enable nearly a million riders get their concessionary discounts while tapping credit and debit cards and open-loop credentials in digital wallets.
The system launched this month for only one category of students, those in vocational studies, along with apprentices and trainees. It will move to seniors and other groups that receive the discounts in coming weeks and months, which all together make up one-third of closed-loop Opal users. (Riders now receive concessionary discounts mostly by tapping special closed-loop Opal cards.)
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