Updated: Making the Move into Ticketing and Payments
Such major trip-planning app providers as Moovit, Transit and Google Maps see ticketing and payments as an important new service and for some, it’s one of the last steps toward…
Category: Mobile Ticketing
Google Expands Parking Payments to Another City as it Continues to Build Google Pay Fare Hub
Google will enable users to pay for parking with U.S.-based parking locator and payments vendor ParkMobile within its Google Pay app starting this month in Atlanta, GA, as the search…
Transit Agency Sells Passes for Bikes and Buses through Trip-Planning App, though Cash Still Reigns
RTC of Southern Nevada, the main transit agency serving Las Vegas and the surrounding region, now enables customers to buy passes for bike share in addition to tickets for buses…
Cubic Announces Two More Small Transit Agencies Launching Umo, as Company Seeks to Broaden Market Reach
U.S.-based Cubic Transportation Systems has announced contracts with two more small U.S. transit agencies to move to Cubic’s Umo ticketing platform, as the large automated fare-collection system vendor seeks to…
Budding MaaS App Hits Milestone for Public Transit Tickets but Share of Total Rides Still Low
U.S.-based trip-planning app Transit announced it has enabled 500,000 rides from its app for a group of 13 small to mid-tier transit agencies based in the state of Ohio, though…
In-Depth: First Agency to Sell Tickets Through Uber App Sees Relatively Few Takers Two Years on
The Regional Transportation District of Denver was the first transit agency to work with Uber to sell its bus and light rail tickets through the Uber app in the spring…
Dubai Transit Authority Plans to Launch Its Closed-Loop Card in More NFC Wallets
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, or RTA, which in December first launched mobile fare payments with a digital version of its closed-loop card in Huawei smartphones, says it plans to…
Case Study: Transit Agency in Portugal Combined NFC with BLE for Mobile Ticketing; Faced Challenges
The agency that runs ticketing for 19 public bus, tram and train operators serving Porto, Portugal’s second largest city, says it has had success–and faced several challenges–with the rollout of…
Israel Launches Nationwide Mobile-Ticketing Scheme; Moovit, Others Provide Apps
Israel this week (December) launched a nationwide mobile-ticketing system, enabling riders to pay for trips on buses and later on railways, with the charges assessed at the end of each…
In-Depth: California Transport Group Launches Mobile Ticketing, Plans MaaS Rollout
Officials in California’s Central Valley have launched an app that enables users to buy mobile tickets for bus and rail rides with seven mostly small public transit agencies, with plans…
