The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, or MTS, and a smaller affiliated transit agency are planning to introduce open-loop payments in April–deep in the heart of car-centric Southern California. […]
Hong Kong Tramways recently became the latest–and still one of the few–transit operators in Hong Kong to support open-loop payments. But more are coming. […]
Earlier this month, Gothenburg transit authority Västtrafik launched open-loop payments, the fourth city in Sweden to do so, according to Vix Technology, the vendor that implemented the service on 4,500 upgraded validators on buses, trams and ferries in the city. […]
The transit agency serving the city of Grand Rapids, Mich., became the latest in a small but growing list of agencies to launch open-loop payments in the U.S. […]
Users of open-loop payments in France are mainly tourists and occasional riders paying for single tickets–not the transit agencies’ regular customers–the head of a company that implements closed-loop mobile NFC ticketing in France, told Mobility Payments. […]
The New South Wales government in Sydney has released more details about its “Opal Plus” mobility-as-a-service trial, which will offer a large number of weekly subscription plans that bundle rides on the metro, trains, trams and buses in the Australian state. In addition, users will apparently have to book rides with private mobility providers separately. […]
The New South Wales government in Australia plans to spend just under AU$568 million (US$395 million) to upgrade its Opal fare payments system, including rolling out a digital Opal card and launching a mobility-as-a-service app. […]
The Utah Transit Authority in Salt Lake City plans to overhaul its fare-collection system, including supporting open-loop payments and launching a new mobile app. […]
Nearly a year after Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, or SL, in Stockholm launched open-loop payments for its multimodal transport network, the agency was seeing around 15% of its total fare revenue coming from contactless EMV payments, according to figures obtained by Mobility Payments. […]
Italian transit operator AMT along with Visa have launched a pilot of open-loop fares payments, enabling multipassenger fare capping for the first time in Italy–and probably for one of the first times globally. […]
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