Michigan Transit Agency Launches Open-Loop Payments
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. [...]Read More
Category: Open Loop
Fare payments with contactless EMV cards or card credentials in NFC wallets.
U.S. Federal Agency Opens Procurement Program to Fare Validator Suppliers
Transit agencies in the U.S. could be able to buy fare validators through a federal government procurement program administered by the U.S. General Services Administration, as part of an initiative…
Philadelphia Transit Agency Seeks to Overhaul ‘Troubled’ Fare System
For years, Philadelphia transit authority SEPTA was supposed to be the next big agency in North America to support open-loop payments. Now it appears that a launch of open loop…
Transit Operator in No. 2 Dutch City Launches Open Loop; Last Major Provider to Join Nationwide Service
RET, a bus, tram and metro operator serving the second-largest city in the Netherlands, Rotterdam, today announced it was beginning to accept open-loop payments. It’s the last major public transit…
Dutch Transit Agencies Plan to Move Forward Linking Concessions to Open-Loop Payments
Transit agencies in the Netherlands have released more details about their plans to support concessionary fares and other popular discounts with open-loop payments, Mobility Payments has learned. [...]Read More
Special Report: Despite Industry Push, Few Transit Agencies Rolling Out ‘Closed-Loop EMV’ So Far
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…
Taiwan’s EasyCard Chief: Open Loop Will Have Only ‘Marginal Impact’ on Island Nation
The head of Taiwan’s largest transit and retail stored-value card contends that open-loop payments will not make a significant impact on the island nation, given Taiwan’s strong closed-loop card programs…
Toronto’s Largest Transit Operator, TTC, to Launch Open-Loop Payments in Mid-2023
Riders of the largest public transit operator in Canada’s biggest city, the Toronto Transit Commission, or TTC, will finally get an open-loop payments option by mid-2023. That will include the…
In-Depth: Low Bid to Italian Agency’s Open-Loop Tender Came in Well Below Estimates
After the pandemic, AVM, the Italian public transit agency that runs buses, trams, water buses and shuttles in Venice, Italy, wanted a low-cost, low-risk way to introduce open-loop payments to…
Special Report: Visa’s Marketing Message on Open-Loop Projects–Does It Add Up?
Open-loop payments is perhaps the hottest fare-payments technology around today. But getting reliable estimates on just how large the open-loop footprint is has proved to be difficult. [...]Read More
