Wellington Plans to Launch Open-Loop Payments Next April–Refusing to Wait for New Zealand’s National Ticketing Solution     

The transport authority serving New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, said it can no longer wait for the country’s “National Ticketing Solution” to reach the city and is spending NZ$5.5 million ($3.2 million) in local money to enable open-loop payments...

Review of New Zealand National Fare Project Predicts More ‘Significant Delays’ and Likely Cost Overruns; Government in ‘Commercial’ Talks with Cubic, Others  

An independent review of New Zealand’s national fare-system project concluded there is a “very high likelihood of further significant delays” to the project and expressed doubts that vendors and other parties would be able to deliver the full project...

Special Report: Despite Industry Push, Few Transit Agencies Rolling Out ‘Closed-Loop EMV’ So Far

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Transit agency Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, or SL, in Stockholm launched what is believed to be the industry’s first rollout of white-label EMV cards for its closed-loop customers in September 2021. To date it has issued around 1.5 million cards, which...
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