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U.S. Transit Agency Eliminates Cash on Board Buses; One of Few Cashless Agencies Nationwide

by Dan BalabanPosted on April 1, 2025 (May 5, 2025)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Cashless, Masabi

Faced with the choice of replacing aging fareboxes on its bus fleet or stopping cash acceptance altogether on board the vehicles, a small regional U.S. transit agency in Colorado chose…

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Cubic to Launch Open-Payment Overlay Product, Introduces New Pricing Strategy, as It Seeks to Revamp Umo Offer

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 26, 2025 (May 2, 2025)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Cubic, Editor's Choice

Cubic Transportation Systems plans to launch its “open-payment overlay” product within 90 days, seeking to give transit agencies the potential to launch open-loop payments with low upfront costs, like the…

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Tip Sheet: Fare System Procurement in UAE Capital Canceled; New Tender Request May be Coming

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 26, 2025 (May 4, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Abu Dhabi, NEORide

Also: Visa’s Nick Mackie: Quit or Shown the Door?; Largest Agency on Multistate Ticketing Platform to Launch Fare Capping; Major Agencies Again Meet with Payments Industry [...]Read More

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Ridango Gets New Owner, New HQ and Says It’s Looking for New Acquisitions; Can It Shed Its Status as a Regional Player?

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 26, 2025 (May 14, 2025)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Ridango

The chief of fare-system supplier Ridango says the vendor doesn’t plan “any shift in the company’s strategic direction” now that it has a new majority owner. But he added that…

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Queensland Rollout to Hit Major Milestone after Years of Delays; Politicians Seek to Score Points Over Fare-System Fumble

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 21, 2025 (April 28, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Brisbane, Queensland

The last major transport operator serving the Australian city of Brisbane and the state’s most populous region, “South East Queensland,” is scheduled to launch open-loop payments Monday as part of…

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Denmark Says It’s One-Third of the Way Toward Hitting Goal of Nearly Universal Adoption of Mobile-Ticketing App

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 20, 2025 (April 28, 2025)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Denmark

When Danish transport officials launched their nationwide mobile-ticketing app last year, they repeated their ambitious–some might say fantastical-projection that use of the GPS-enabled app would one day account for 90%…

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UK Government Plans to Trial GPS Mobile Ticketing on Rail Despite Expansion of Open Loop

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 16, 2025 (April 28, 2025)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Editor's Choice

While mobile ticketing using GPS technology is advancing in such countries as Denmark, Switzerland and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in Western Europe, it hasn’t yet been rolled out in…

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Transit App Introduces First-of-Its-Kind Feature Telling Users Where They Can Pay with Open Loop

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 5, 2025 (May 14, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Editor's Choice, Transit app

The Transit trip-planning app has introduced a feature that tells users whether the transit agency they’re looking to ride accepts open-loop payments. The first-of-its-kind feature kicked off with a list…

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Cubic Wins Lawsuit Against LA Metro Seeking to Prevent Agency from Releasing ‘Confidential’ Pricing Information

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 5, 2025 (April 28, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged LA Metro

A Los Angeles County superior court judge has ruled in favor of Cubic Transportation Systems in its lawsuit against the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Cubic has mainly sought to…

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Three Years on, Results are Mixed for California’s Bold Move into Modularity for Open-Loop Procurements

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 5, 2025 (March 6, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Cal-ITP

After three years of operations, the California Integrated Travel Project, or Cal-ITP, the state’s program that in part seeks to help mostly small transit agencies in California and elsewhere in…

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U.S. Transit Agency Eliminates Cash on Board Buses; One of Few Cashless Agencies Nationwide

Cubic to Launch Open-Payment Overlay Product, Introduces New Pricing Strategy, as It Seeks to Revamp Umo Offer

Tip Sheet: Fare System Procurement in UAE Capital Canceled; New Tender Request May be Coming

Ridango Gets New Owner, New HQ and Says It’s Looking for New Acquisitions; Can It Shed Its Status as a Regional Player?

Queensland Rollout to Hit Major Milestone after Years of Delays; Politicians Seek to Score Points Over Fare-System Fumble

Denmark Says It’s One-Third of the Way Toward Hitting Goal of Nearly Universal Adoption of Mobile-Ticketing App

UK Government Plans to Trial GPS Mobile Ticketing on Rail Despite Expansion of Open Loop

Transit App Introduces First-of-Its-Kind Feature Telling Users Where They Can Pay with Open Loop

Cubic Wins Lawsuit Against LA Metro Seeking to Prevent Agency from Releasing ‘Confidential’ Pricing Information

Three Years on, Results are Mixed for California’s Bold Move into Modularity for Open-Loop Procurements

Miami Hearing Officer Rejects Protests by Cubic, Moovel; Vendors Vow to Weigh ‘All Available Options’

Tip Sheet: Chicago’s Ventra 3.0 Flies Under Radar; Vancouver may be in Talks with Vendors

Exclusive: Cubic, Moovel and Masabi Make Arguments to Protest Hearing Officer in Miami

Vendors Prepare to Compete for Business, as New York’s MTA Requests First Bids for Large Fare-Evasion Project

Tip Sheet: Could Cubic Lose Another Big Contract in Vancouver?

Miami Hearing Officer Rejects Protests by Cubic, Moovel; Vendors Vow to Weigh ‘All Available Options’

Exclusive: Cubic, Moovel and Masabi Make Arguments to Protest Hearing Officer in Miami

Tip Sheet: Could Cubic Lose Another Big Contract in Vancouver?

Cubic Corp. Hires Transportation Industry Veteran to Turn Around Its Troubled Fare-System Vendor

Cubic and Moovel Intend to Protest Recommendation in Miami for $42 Million Contract Award to Masabi