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Masabi Wins Montreal Contract, Beating Out Cubic, Likely Conduent

by Dan BalabanPosted on June 20, 2025 (June 21, 2025)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Montreal

UK-based Masabi has won a contract reported to be worth at least CA$125 million (US$91.1 million) from Montreal-area transport authority ARTM, beating out Cubic Transportation Systems, likely incumbent Conduent Transportation and four other suppliers. It's...

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Tip Sheet: Montreal Authority Reissues RFP after Disappointing Results; Promises to be More Flexible This Time

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 16, 2024 (October 17, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Montreal, Netherland

Montreal-area transport authority, Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain, or ARTM, has reissued its call to tenders, as promised, for a new account-based ticketing system, after having cancelled the previous tender request in August because of...

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Montreal Transport Authority to Issue New RFP after Disappointing Results from Previous Tender Request

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 5, 2024 (November 7, 2024)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Montreal

Montreal-area transport authority, Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain, or ARTM, plans to issue a new call for tenders in coming weeks for its planned account-based ticketing system after scrapping the previous tender request last month because...

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Tip Sheet: Cubic’s Listening Tour; Novel RFP in Montreal; Delays in Sydney; ‘Next Steps’ for Ireland

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 8, 2024 (April 6, 2024)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Conduent, Cubic, Ireland

Cubic Transportation Systems president Peter Torrellas and the corporate turnaround expert he hired, Rich Varos, have held a series of meetings with Cubic clients and partners starting late last year. Both execs only joined the vendor in the fall–their...

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Procurement Model in Poland Asked Vendors to Front Costs for CapEx in Exchange for Ticketing Revenue; Most Vendors Said, ‘No Thanks’

by Dan BalabanPosted on May 14, 2025 (June 12, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Poland

Transport agency ZTM Warsaw in Poland floated the idea around 18 months ago of taking a CapEx-free approach to procuring its new fare system. It would order 12,000 validators and other capital expenditures, offering to pay vendors fees once ticket revenue was...

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Tip Sheet: Cubic Lays Off More Employees; Contends It Needs to ‘Become Leaner’ and More Competitive

by Dan BalabanPosted on April 15, 2024 (May 15, 2025)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Cubic, Montreal, SEPTA

Cubic Transportation Systems is laying off more employees in an effort, it says, to “become leaner and more responsive” to the market, Mobility Payments has learned. The U.S.-based vendor, the largest fare-system supplier globally, already laid off more...

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‘Hardware-as-a-Service’? Another Transit Agency Proposes Unconventional Model to Procure New Fare System

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 31, 2024 (May 13, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Procurement models

Another transit agency has opted for an unconventional approach to procuring its new fare system, planning to hire a vendor to run the entire system-including furnishing thousands of validators–in exchange for a fixed service fee and a commission on monthly...

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Canada Lags Behind on Open-Loop Payments, but Interest Continues to Build, According to Major Acquirer

by Dan BalabanPosted on May 11, 2022 (August 12, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Moneris, STL, TransLink, TTC

When it comes to open-loop payments, Canada has been lagging behind, acknowledges Pasquale Pizzi, senior vice president for Moneris, a major processor and acquirer in the country. [...]

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Search Results for: Montreal ARTM

Masabi Wins Montreal Contract, Beating Out Cubic, Likely Conduent

Tip Sheet: Montreal Authority Reissues RFP after Disappointing Results; Promises to be More Flexible This Time

Montreal Transport Authority to Issue New RFP after Disappointing Results from Previous Tender Request

Tip Sheet: Cubic’s Listening Tour; Novel RFP in Montreal; Delays in Sydney; ‘Next Steps’ for Ireland

Procurement Model in Poland Asked Vendors to Front Costs for CapEx in Exchange for Ticketing Revenue; Most Vendors Said, ‘No Thanks’

Tip Sheet: Cubic Lays Off More Employees; Contends It Needs to ‘Become Leaner’ and More Competitive

‘Hardware-as-a-Service’? Another Transit Agency Proposes Unconventional Model to Procure New Fare System

Canada Lags Behind on Open-Loop Payments, but Interest Continues to Build, According to Major Acquirer

Canadian Transit Agencies Move to Enable Domestic Debit but Open Loop Expected to Continue to Take Back Seat

Transit Agency Sells Passes for Bikes and Buses through Trip-Planning App, though Cash Still Reigns

Masabi Wins Montreal Contract, Beating Out Cubic, Likely Conduent

Barcelona Transport Agency Sets Date for Launch of Open-Loop Payments–Two Years Late

New Zealand Taps CTO of Country’s Largest Transport Agency to Try to Get National Ticketing Project Back on Track

New Zealand Government Believed to be Replacing Head of National Ticketing Program Amid Concerns Over Project Delays

Transport for London Expected to Reveal Winner of Major Revenue-Collection Contract within Weeks

Transport for London Expected to Reveal Winner of Major Revenue-Collection Contract within Weeks

In-Depth: Washington, D.C., Launches Open-Loop Payments on Subway with Overlay Technology; but Transit Agency Incurs Extra Costs

Vix Technology Agrees to Pay $2.1 Million to Settle Covid Relief Loan Fraud Case; CEO Says Penalty Won’t Affect ‘Operations or Financial Position’

Tip Sheet: Sydney’s Transport for NSW Says Procurement of Opal Next-Gen System Still on Track; Also, Why Kurt Brissett Likely Left the Agency

In-Depth: Projects to Watch in California for Concessionary Discounts with Open Loop; Will More Riders Tap Bank Cards to Get Their Reduced Fares?