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Backers of Dutch OVpay Project Again Push Back Date to Retire 20-Year-Old Mifare Card; but White-Label Replacement is Coming

by Dan BalabanPosted on February 2, 2026 (March 8, 2026)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Netherland

Organizers of the Netherland’s high-profile national rollout of a new fare system entirely supporting EMV technology have pushed back the date for retiring their more than 20-year-old closed-loop OV-chipkaart. Dutch transport officials confirmed to...

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Netherlands Sees Some Growth in Open-Loop Adoption; Reiterates End Date for Aging Closed-Loop Card

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 2, 2025 (July 11, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Netherlands

Dutch public transport riders tapped with their debit cards for a growing number of transactions this spring, and ticketing officials kept the March 2027 stop date to finally retire the country’s 20-year-old closed-loop OV-chip card, Mobility Payments has...

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Despite Nationwide Open-Loop Rollout, Netherlands Predicts Closed-Loop Card will Remain Most-Used Payments Method

by Dan BalabanPosted on April 14, 2025 (July 3, 2025)Posted in Closed Loop, Open LoopTagged Netherlands

Dutch transport operators and their national ticketing agency have disclosed updated details for rolling out a new white-label closed-loop card, while adding two months to the date when they plan to finally retire the country’s 20-year-old, Mifare-based...

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Dutch Transport Agencies Set New Date for Turning Off 20-year-Old Closed-Loop Card Program–in Two Years; Will They Make It?

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 2, 2025 (January 10, 2025)Posted in Closed Loop, Open LoopTagged Editor's Choice, Netherlands, OVpay

Transport agencies in the Netherlands, the first country of any size to accept open-loop fare payments nationally, are having a more difficult time with a complementary piece of their new system–shutting down their 20-year-old closed-loop OV-chipcard. The...

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Netherlands Plans to Expand Open Loop to More Discount Products–as Growth in Adoption Continues to Slow

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 22, 2024 (November 5, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Netherlands, OVpay

Public transport operators in the Netherlands plan to expand the discount products that customers receive when they tap their debit cards–with the goal of offering the same discounts as riders now get with the country’s much-used national closed-loop...

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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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Australia: Cubic Notches Contract in Tasmania by ‘Leveraging’ Its Larger Queensland Project in ‘Platform-as-a-Service’ Play

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 14, 2024 (October 14, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Australia, Editor's Choice, Tasmania

Seeking “big city” features for its fare system, the small Australian state of Tasmania has decided to plug into the back office of a much larger fare system that is under development by Cubic Transportation Systems in the state of Queensland. The...

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Unreachable Goal? Denmark Seeks Adoption Rate of 90% for Its National Mobile-Ticketing Services

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 14, 2024 (September 16, 2024)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Denmark

It’s difficult for an agency retire a long-established closed-loop card, even one with an aging technology and which is expensive to maintain. But that is precisely what transport officials in Denmark propose to do. And not with open-loop payments or other...

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Death of Dutch Prepaid Bank Card Deal Shows Concept is Difficult Proposition for Agencies

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 4, 2024 (September 21, 2024)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Netherlands, OVpay

The recent break between Dutch transport-ticketing agency Translink Systems and Netherlands-based neobank bunq is another setback for the idea of using prepaid bank cards in place of closed-loop fare cards for agencies already offering open-loop...

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Updated: Netherlands Stands by Plan to Retire Much-Used Closed-Loop Card by End of 2025

by Dan BalabanPosted on June 25, 2024 (October 22, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Netherlands, OVpay

Dutch transport officials are still on track to fully retire the country’s nationwide closed-loop card program, OV-chipkaart, by the end of next year, the program director for the year-old open-loop OVpay system told Mobility Payments. OVpay, the first...

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Backers of Dutch OVpay Project Again Push Back Date to Retire 20-Year-Old Mifare Card; but White-Label Replacement is Coming

Netherlands Sees Some Growth in Open-Loop Adoption; Reiterates End Date for Aging Closed-Loop Card

Despite Nationwide Open-Loop Rollout, Netherlands Predicts Closed-Loop Card will Remain Most-Used Payments Method

Dutch Transport Agencies Set New Date for Turning Off 20-year-Old Closed-Loop Card Program–in Two Years; Will They Make It?

Netherlands Plans to Expand Open Loop to More Discount Products–as Growth in Adoption Continues to Slow

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

Australia: Cubic Notches Contract in Tasmania by ‘Leveraging’ Its Larger Queensland Project in ‘Platform-as-a-Service’ Play

Unreachable Goal? Denmark Seeks Adoption Rate of 90% for Its National Mobile-Ticketing Services

Death of Dutch Prepaid Bank Card Deal Shows Concept is Difficult Proposition for Agencies

Updated: Netherlands Stands by Plan to Retire Much-Used Closed-Loop Card by End of 2025

Tip Sheet: Vancouver Accepts Bids for Major System Upgrade–Another Must-Win for Cubic

Officials Plan First Statewide Open-Loop Rollout in U.S.; but Say Federal Rules Bar them from Buying Through Cal-ITP

Updated: Trump Budget Cuts–If Not Rolled Back by Congress–would Deal Blow to U.S. Transit Agencies

Miami-Dade County Mayor Recommends Canceling Problem-Plagued Procurement for Back Office; Officials Plan to Issue New RFP

Glasgow Subway Launches London-Style Open-Loop Service with Help from Sole-Source Deal with Scheidt & Bachmann

Officials Plan First Statewide Open-Loop Rollout in U.S.; but Say Federal Rules Bar them from Buying Through Cal-ITP

State Auditor: Conduent Rollout Schedule for Melbourne Project ‘Overly Optimistic’; Transport Officials Ignored Signs of Risk

Special Report: San Francisco’s MTC and Cubic Battle Through Problem-Plagued Launch of Clipper 2.0

Miami Disqualifies Top-Ranked Cubic for $40 Million Back-Office Contract; Vendor Vows to File Objection and to ‘Pursue all Available Remedies’

In-Depth: Cal-ITP Open-Loop Procurement Program Records Biggest Year in 2025 but Several Challenges Remain