Fare payments with contactless EMV cards or card credentials in NFC wallets.
Mastercard is footing the bill for a large share of the cost to roll out and operate an open-loop payments pilot for Budapest transit agency BKK, but the agency won’t say how much the payments scheme is paying, Mobility Payments has learned. […]
Despite a high-profile launch recently of domestic debit card acceptance in Canada and more open-loop rollouts there, Canadian transit agencies say they have no plans to promote open-loop payments over their close-loop cards. […]
The main contractor for Barcelona’s open-loop payments project has chosen a local company over Brazil-based Planeta Informática to implement a key technology for the rollout, after apparently receiving pressure to hire a local subcontractor, sources told Mobility Payments. […]
Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or NS, the Dutch national railway and by far the largest transit operator in the country, yesterday announced it will launch open-loop payments next Tuesday. While open loop will only apply to single ticket sales–a reported 10% of NS’s total trips–the launch is a major milestone for the Netherlands’ nationwide EMV payments project. […]
In what will be the first open-loop payments service launched in Lithuania, the transit agency serving the Baltic country’s third-largest city plans to launch the contactless EMV service by July of this year, Mobility Payments has learned. […]
Since launching open-loop payments in 2019, Singapore’s Land Transport Authority has seen adoption grow to more than 30% of adult full fare trips, and the authority has eliminated single-trip paper tickets. […]
Vancouver transit authority TransLink Wednesday launched the much-anticipated expansion of its open-loop payments service to include Canada’s popular domestic debit brand, Interac–hoping to increase adoption of what has been a little-used service. […]
Open-loop payments can improve the customer experience, helping transit agencies to win back customers in a post-pandemic world, while also reducing cash-handling costs and speeding up boarding times, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution, a major think tank in the U.S. […]
Recent reports in the Irish press suggesting that the country would launch a contactless fare-payments pilot in the second quarter as part of its planned national open-loop rollout were overstated, a representative of the National Transport Authority, or NTA, told Mobility Payments. […]
Transit riders in the Netherlands could begin receiving concessionary discounts while using their contactless debit and credit cards or NFC wallets later this year, the program director for the country’s nationwide open-loop rollout told Mobility Payments. […]
