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Updated: New Zealand Announces Plans for Nationwide Open-Loop Payments Rollout

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 21, 2022 (May 25, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged New Zealand

New Zealand’s Ministry of Transport today announced the country’s planned nationwide rollout of open-loop payments, a system costing an estimated NZ$1.3 billion (US$746.7 million) over 15 years. Officials signed a…

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Can Transit Agencies Quit Closed Loop after Rolling Out Open-Loop Payments?

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 13, 2022 (May 12, 2023)Posted in Open LoopTagged Editor's Choice, Open Loop

A panel of industry experts squared off for a first-of-its-kind debate about the pros and cons of open-loop payments, tackling a range of issues–from whether transit agencies can completely eliminate…

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Market Opportunity or Last Gasp? Pioneering MaaS Start-Up ‘Pivots’ to Stay in Business

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 13, 2022 (November 4, 2022)Posted in MaaSTagged MaaS Global

Pioneering mobility-as-a-service start-up MaaS Global plans to drop its B2C business model and will instead try to license its Whim platform and expertise to non-transport companies that want to launch…

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Denmark Selects List of Suppliers to Advance to Next Round for National Mobile-Ticketing Project

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 10, 2022 (October 11, 2022)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Denmark

Transit officials in Denmark have qualified a list of eight suppliers to compete for five vendor slots to provide technology or services for the country’s planned DKK 500 million (US$65.2…

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MaaS Global Lays Off More Employees; Faces Uncertain Future

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 7, 2022 (October 14, 2022)Posted in MaaSTagged MaaS Global

The CEO and founder of financially strapped Finnish start-up MaaS Global, creator of the pioneering mobility-as-a-service app Whim, said the company is “reorganizing. That includes laying off more employees, after…

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Italian Suppliers Lose Appeal on Venetian Open-Loop Payments Contract

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 5, 2022 (December 20, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged AVM, Conduent, Pluservice

Officials in Italy have reportedly denied an appeal by Italy-based fare-collection technology provider Pluservice and its partner, acquirer and processor Nexi, which had challenged a planned contract award to U.S.-based…

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New York City Transit Agency Sees Strong Usage of Open-Loop Payments on Subway

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 3, 2022 (October 5, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Metropolitan Transportation Auhtority, MTA

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it is seeing nearly 40% of trips taken on its New York City Subway paid for through the agency’s OMNY service, which is used mainly…

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Panel of Experts to Debate Costs, Other Issues Transit Agencies Face in Rolling Out Open-Loop Payments

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 29, 2022 (December 4, 2023)Posted in Open LoopTagged Editor's Choice, Open Loop

There’s little doubt that open-loop payments is the highest profile trend in the fare-collection industry. [...]Read More

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California Replaces System That Helped Link Concessionary Fares to Open-Loop Cards Following Review by State Agencies

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 20, 2022 (September 30, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Cal-ITP

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California transit officials have relaunched their senior discount verification program after shutting it down for six months, during which multiple state agencies conducted a security review, Mobility Payments has learned.…

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UK Transit Agency Plans London-Style Multimodal Contactless System with Fare Capping

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 12, 2022 (September 13, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Transport for West Midlands

Transit officials serving the UK’s second largest city, Birmingham, and the surrounding West Midlands region are moving forward with a London-style multimodal fare-capping system for contactless credit and debit payments,…

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Updated: New Zealand Announces Plans for Nationwide Open-Loop Payments Rollout

Can Transit Agencies Quit Closed Loop after Rolling Out Open-Loop Payments?

Market Opportunity or Last Gasp? Pioneering MaaS Start-Up ‘Pivots’ to Stay in Business

Denmark Selects List of Suppliers to Advance to Next Round for National Mobile-Ticketing Project

MaaS Global Lays Off More Employees; Faces Uncertain Future

Italian Suppliers Lose Appeal on Venetian Open-Loop Payments Contract

New York City Transit Agency Sees Strong Usage of Open-Loop Payments on Subway

Panel of Experts to Debate Costs, Other Issues Transit Agencies Face in Rolling Out Open-Loop Payments

California Replaces System That Helped Link Concessionary Fares to Open-Loop Cards Following Review by State Agencies

UK Transit Agency Plans London-Style Multimodal Contactless System with Fare Capping

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