Transit officials in Milwaukee, WI, plan to launch a new fare payments system and are believed to have chosen Cubic Transportation Systems’ software-as-a-service Umo platform for the project, Mobility Payments has learned. […]
Demand for hands-free (or nearly hands-free) ticketing has been growing, using such technologies as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS to enable customers to board buses and trains with only a swipe of their finger in a smartphone app to check-in and check-out. Sometimes they don’t even need to swipe. […]
The Regional Transportation District, or RTD, of Denver, continues to see only modest increases in mobile ticketing from third-party apps, and overall use of mobile ticketing has not greatly expanded during the pandemic, Mobility Payments has learned. […]
Moscow Metro has 45,000 users of its Face Pay service since launching its rollout of facial recognition fare-payments in mid-October, the transit agency said today, in releasing more details about how the service works. […]
The Spokane Transit Authority in Washington state confirmed that it will launch its new fare-collection system next October, though only as a beta test to begin with, a spokesman told Mobility Payments. […]
When the Regional Transportation District of Denver began enabling Uber to sell its bus and train tickets in May 2019-in the first integration of its kind in the world-it was seen as a rare example of a public transit agency and a private ride-sharing company putting competition aside and working together. […]
BVG, Germany’s largest transit operator, still plans to launch a test of a check-in/check-out mobile-ticketing service this year, as it continues to experiment with new fare payments methods amid the Covid-19 pandemic. […]
The Central Ohio Transit Authority, or COTA, officially launched its new digital-payments service Monday, including a fare-capping feature that the agency estimates will cost it $1.8 million per year in lost fare revenue, the agency confirmed to Mobility Payments. […]
Touting it as the largest rollout of biometric payments in the world, Moscow Metro launched its high-profile “Face Pay” service Friday, as expected, and predicted that 10% to 15% would regularly use the service in the next two to three years. […]
The trip-planning app provider Transit has added another mobile-ticketing and payments provider as it continues to seek to enable users to plan, book and pay for rides from its app. It already works with at least three other software-as-a-service mobile-ticketing providers. […]
