French national rail operator SNCF is considering launching an open-loop payments service in and around Paris–perhaps as a demonstration project to coincide with the Rugby World Cup to be held in France next year, sources told Mobility Payments. […]
In a first for Latin America and perhaps one of the only projects of its kind in the world, the Central Bank of Costa Rica is building a nationwide infrastructure for open-loop transit payments, as it seeks to ultimately eliminate cash on board its buses and trains. […]
Helsinki transit agency HSL has awarded a contract for at least 4,500 validators it plans to use for its rollout of open-loop payments across its transport network. […]
A group of rural transit agencies in far Northern California are in the process of signing contracts with vendors to roll out open-loop payments under the state-backed Cal-ITP program, perhaps the first agencies to confirm they are contracting with vendors beyond the pilot stage, Mobility Payments has learned. […]
More than three years after it was introduced, a technology designed to make it easier and less costly for transit agencies to accept open-loop payments on their proprietary closed-loop terminals is still only live with a handful of agencies, all in Latin America. […]
The CEO of France-based ticketing and fare-payments provider Flowbird said the company will continue to pursue business in California for its open-loop technology despite not being selected for an open-loop contract by the state of California. […]
France had fallen behind such open-loop payments hotspots in Europe as the UK and Italy. But it has been catching up over the past couple of years, starting with small to medium-sized cities. […]
Visa has quietly introduced a new interchange category for transit agencies in California, Mobility Payments has learned. If rolled out nationally and across more card types, the changes could substantially reduce the high fees that agencies pay to accept credit and debit cards for fares. […]
California’s “Mobility Marketplace,” which aims to sell transit agencies in the state and beyond the core components they need build open-loop fare-collection systems, is now open for business. […]
Transit agencies planning to roll out new electronic fare-collection systems have typically hired automated fare-collection vendors to handle the entire projects, from supplying the validators and payments processing to building or procuring the back office and integrating the various parts into a complete system. […]
