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California’s ‘Mobility Marketplace’ Officially Open for Business; Vendors Offer Range of Prices and Integration Levels

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 17, 2022 (February 15, 2023)Posted in Open LoopTagged Cal-ITP, Editor's Choice

California’s “Mobility Marketplace,” which aims to sell transit agencies in the state and beyond the core components they need build open-loop fare-collection systems, is now open for business. [...]Read More

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Stockholm Transit Agency Sees Strong Growth in Open-Loop Payments During First Year of Service

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 3, 2022 (March 4, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged SL, Sweden

Stockholm, open-loop card tapping reader on bus

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…

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California Open-Loop Program Chief: Transit Agencies Should Stop Thinking They Need to Create a ‘Separate Currency’

by Dan BalabanPosted on February 24, 2022 (February 26, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Cal-ITP, Editor's Choice

Gillian Gillett, manager for the California Integrated Mobility program in the state Department of Transportation, once observed that 97% of Californians never even think about using public transit. “I mean,…

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Exclusive: Los Angeles City Transit Agency Plans Open-Loop Payments Pilot; To Target Underbanked and Unbanked

by Dan BalabanPosted on February 23, 2022 (July 18, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Cal-ITP, LADOT

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation, or LADOT, the city-owned transit agency that runs fixed-route and commuter bus service in and around the city, plans to launch a trial of…

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Italian Transit Operator and Visa Launch Open-Loop Pilot Enabling Multipassenger Fare Capping

by Mobility Payments StaffPosted on February 22, 2022 (April 2, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged AMT, Visa

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…

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Special Report: More Agencies Taking Modular Approach to Build Their Fare Systems, Shunning Single-Supplier Model

by Dan BalabanPosted on February 16, 2022 (December 27, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Editor's Choice, HSL, Metrolinx, Transport for London

Transit agencies planning to roll out new electronic fare-collection systems have typically hired automated fare-collection vendors to handle the entire projects, from supplying the validators and payments processing to building…

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French City Launches Open-Loop Fare Payments, Though France Catching Up with Other European Countries

by Mobility Payments StaffPosted on February 3, 2022 (March 21, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Besançon, Kuba, Littlepay

The city of Besançon in Eastern France has launched contactless open-loop fare payments supporting Visa- and Mastercard-branded credit and debit cards, as well as cards supporting France’s Cartes Bancaires domestic…

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Helsinki Transit Agency Issues New Tender Request for Validators for Multimodal Open-Loop Payments Service

by Mobility Payments StaffPosted on January 26, 2022 (July 22, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged HSL, Littlepay

The Helsinki regional transport agency, or HSL late last week released a tender request through procurement channels seeking bids for at least 4,500 validators for its planned multimodal contactless open-loop…

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Multiple Vendors Disqualified in Bidding to Supply Open-Loop Technology for California’s ‘Mobility Marketplace’

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 6, 2022 (October 22, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Cal-ITP, Editor's Choice, Enghouse, Littlepay, Masabi, Scheidt & Bachmann

A number of well-known industry vendors that bid on two much-anticipated contracts from the state of California to the supply open-loop payments technology to transit agencies statewide were disqualified last…

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Open-Loop Technology May be ‘Interoperable,’ but Not for Transit Agencies; Trade Group Wants to Help Remedy That

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 5, 2022 (January 6, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Transport for London, UITP, Visa

One of the main selling points for open-loop payments is that it offers a form of interoperability that enables riders to use the same credit or debit card to pay…

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Category: Open Loop

California’s ‘Mobility Marketplace’ Officially Open for Business; Vendors Offer Range of Prices and Integration Levels

Stockholm Transit Agency Sees Strong Growth in Open-Loop Payments During First Year of Service

California Open-Loop Program Chief: Transit Agencies Should Stop Thinking They Need to Create a ‘Separate Currency’

Exclusive: Los Angeles City Transit Agency Plans Open-Loop Payments Pilot; To Target Underbanked and Unbanked

Italian Transit Operator and Visa Launch Open-Loop Pilot Enabling Multipassenger Fare Capping

Special Report: More Agencies Taking Modular Approach to Build Their Fare Systems, Shunning Single-Supplier Model

French City Launches Open-Loop Fare Payments, Though France Catching Up with Other European Countries

Helsinki Transit Agency Issues New Tender Request for Validators for Multimodal Open-Loop Payments Service

Multiple Vendors Disqualified in Bidding to Supply Open-Loop Technology for California’s ‘Mobility Marketplace’

Open-Loop Technology May be ‘Interoperable,’ but Not for Transit Agencies; Trade Group Wants to Help Remedy That

Cubic Jumps from Fourth to First in Rank for Miami Back-Office Contract, as Competing Vendors Weigh Protests

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

Insight: Paris Warms to Open-Loop Payments but Don’t Expect a London-Style Rollout

Electric Vehicle Market in U.S. Adjusts to Loss of Sales Incentives, Charger Subsidies

Evaluations Detail How Masabi Outscored Cubic and Kuba to Win Sacramento Contract

Cubic Jumps from Fourth to First in Rank for Miami Back-Office Contract, as Competing Vendors Weigh Protests

D.C. Transit Authority WMATA Releases Open-Payment Overlay Contract with Littlepay; Declines to Disclose Transaction Fees, including Interchange

Tip Sheet: Layoffs at Cubic–Vendor Says It Amounts to Only 2% of Workforce but Won’t Release Figures; Insiders Say Cuts Taking Toll on Engineers, Others

In Harsh Response to Cubic’s Lawsuit, Transport for London Contends It Could have Rejected Vendor on Several Grounds

Maitland Out at Cubic; CTS President Montgomery-Torrellas to Take Over ‘Growth’ Position Himself