Brussels Transit Operator Sees Need for Global Interoperability of Fare Payments
Brussels transit operator STIB is rolling out contactless EMV Payments on its three modes of transport, metro, bus and trams this spring. [...]Read More
Transport for London’s Lucrative Sponsorship Deal with Google Shows Value of ‘Point of Sale’ Real Estate at Fare Gates
(This premium article was originally published March 4, 2020 in Mobility Payments’ sister publication NFC Times.) Transport for London’s recent deal with Google to put the Google Pay Logo on…
Transport Officials in Sydney See Growing Demand for Contactless Fare Payments but Have No Plans to Retire Closed-Loop Opal
(This premium article was originally published in January 2020. © Mobility Payments and Forthwrite Media.) Transport officials in Australia have released figures on use of contactless payments in Sydney and…
Miami Declines to Change Evaluation Scores in Back-Office Procurement, Leaving Cubic’s No. 1 Rank Intact
Miami-Dade County adjourned a special meeting of its Competitive Selection Committee after only 11 minutes when none of the five evaluators on the committee said they wanted to change their…
Miami to Reconvene Selection Committee after Vendors Challenge Cubic’s No. 1 Ranking for Back-Office Deal; Cubic Threatens Protest
Miami-Dade County has scheduled a meeting Monday of the Competitive Selection Committee that ranked Cubic Transportation Systems No. 1 in its second and final round of evaluations for the county’s…
Analysis: Cubic Takes Big Hit to Reputation in Losing Transport for London Contract, as Debt Woes Mount
The recent loss by Cubic Transportation Systems of Transport of London’s coveted revenue-collection contract comes at a bad time for the U.S.-based fare-system vendor, as it faces pressure to win…
Backers of Dutch OVpay Project Again Push Back Date to Retire 20-Year-Old Mifare Card; but White-Label Replacement is Coming
Organizers of the Netherland’s high-profile national rollout of a new fare system entirely supporting EMV technology have pushed back the date for retiring their more than 20-year-old closed-loop OV-chipkaart. …
Special Report: New York Mayor Mamdani Champions Zero-Fare Buses for NYC as Kansas City Prepares to Walk it Back
Somewhere in the bowels of New York’s City Hall, a tiger team is figuring out how to fulfill the mayor’s campaign promise of zero-fare buses. The question is, have city…
Updated with Judgment: UK Court Allows Transport for London to Enter into Revenue-Collection Contract with Indra
Spain-based Indra Group announced today it has signed the new revenue-collection contact with Transport for London–a deal worth up to £845 million (US$1.1 billion) to operate and maintain TfL’s massive…
Tip Sheet (Updated): Stockholm to Replace Validators; More Ex-‘Cubes’ Looking for Jobs; Open Loop on Ho Chi Minh City Metro–One Year On
Public transport officials in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday finally issued their long-anticipated tender request to buy 4,000 to 5,000 new validators, starting in January 2027. As expected, Stockholm wants to run…
Exclusive: Masabi, Moovel and Indra Object to Cubic’s No. 1 Ranking for Miami’s Back-Office Contract
Three vendors are calling on Miami-Dade County, Fla., officials to nullify the results of a recent competition for a new account-based ticketing back office and to throw out Cubic Transportation…
Miami Expected to Negotiate with Cubic Soon for Back-Office Contract; One or More Competing Vendors Still Poised to Protest
A Miami-Dade County, Fla., procurement official told Mobility Payments Wednesday that he expects to get approval in less than two weeks to begin negotiations with the top-ranked vendor, Cubic Transportation…
Transit Agencies Spending Millions to Replace Gates; Suppliers See an Opportunity
Transit agencies in the U.S. and beyond are spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars–and, in the case of the New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, potentially more than a…
