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Moovit Moves Forward to Enable Ticketing and Payments in App with More Transit Agencies

by Mobility Payments StaffPosted on July 13, 2021 (July 26, 2021)Posted in Mobile Ticketing

Large trip-planning app provider Moovit has enabled customers of more than 50 mostly small transit agencies in the U.S. to buy mobile tickets it its app, with more agencies to…

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Cubic: Recent MaaS Company Failures among Signs Pointing to Need for ‘MaaS 2.0’

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 12, 2021 (July 26, 2021)Posted in MaaSTagged Cubic, Kyyti, MaaS Global

There is little disputing the fact that mobility as a service has not yet lived up to its hype. And the industry’s largest automated fare collection system provider, Cubic Transportation…

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Regional Transit Group Enables Cash Loading in Apps

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 9, 2021 (July 9, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Cash, Masabi

Ohio-based NEORide consortium, a regional transit group that among other things, handles mobile-ticketing fare collection for 13 transit agencies in the U.S. states of Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan, is seeking…

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Fare System Supplier: Check-in/Be-out Systems Have Advantages Some Transit Agencies Looking for

by Kiona SmithPosted on July 8, 2021 (July 23, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Check-in/Be-out, Porto, Scheidt and Bachmann

The city of Hamburg, Germany, will launch a Bluetooth Low Energy-based “check in, be out” fare collection system on its buses and trains later this year. [...]Read More

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State of California Seeks to Change Way Transit Agencies Procure Fare Systems

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 7, 2021 (September 17, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Caltrans, Editor's Choice, Littlepay, Visa

Card at terminal-Monetery-Salinas Transit

As the California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans, sees it, the state’s more than 300 local transit agencies offer a fragmented and inefficient mix of fare collection systems–a fact it…

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Calypso Backers Seek to Expand Mobile Ticketing on Android Phones

by Mobility Payments StaffPosted on July 7, 2021 (July 7, 2021)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Calypso Networks Association, Île-de-France Mobilités, Wizway

The recent move by CTS, the transit agency serving the French city of Strasbourg, to make its NFC mobile-ticketing service available to users of nearly all Android phones, could signal…

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Google Launches Ticketing in Maps after Delays; but Search Giant Says It has No Plans to Build MaaS App

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 7, 2021 (July 26, 2021)Posted in MaaSTagged Editor's Choice, Google, Token Transit

Google has finally enabled users to initiate purchases of public transit tickets from its Maps app, following delays. Meanwhile, rival trip-planning app providers Moovit and Transit have been quietly moving…

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More Transit Agencies Seek to Eliminate Cash Using Retail Cash Points, Fintechs

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 7, 2021 (July 7, 2021)Posted in Open LoopTagged Editor's Choice, MBTA, OMNY, RTC of Southern Nevada, Transport for London

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, elimination of cash has taken on greater urgency for transit agencies. Fare-collection system suppliers say they are seeing strong demand for cashless options,…

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Case Study: One U.S. Transit Agency’s Journey toward Eliminating Cash

by Kiona SmithPosted on July 7, 2021 (July 19, 2021)Posted in Closed Loop

Dayton Regional Transit Authority in the U.S. plans to eliminate cash fares by the end of the year, an agency representative told Mobility Payments, with an expanded rollout of contactless…

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SaaS Ticketing Vendor Sees Pent Up Market Demand for Mobile Ticketing

by Mobility Payments StaffPosted on July 7, 2021 (April 7, 2022)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Bytemark

It comes as little surprise that demand for mobile ticketing by transit agencies has soared at the same time ridership plummeted during the Covid-19 pandemic. [...]Read More

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Moovit Moves Forward to Enable Ticketing and Payments in App with More Transit Agencies

Cubic: Recent MaaS Company Failures among Signs Pointing to Need for ‘MaaS 2.0’

Regional Transit Group Enables Cash Loading in Apps

Fare System Supplier: Check-in/Be-out Systems Have Advantages Some Transit Agencies Looking for

State of California Seeks to Change Way Transit Agencies Procure Fare Systems

Calypso Backers Seek to Expand Mobile Ticketing on Android Phones

Google Launches Ticketing in Maps after Delays; but Search Giant Says It has No Plans to Build MaaS App

More Transit Agencies Seek to Eliminate Cash Using Retail Cash Points, Fintechs

Case Study: One U.S. Transit Agency’s Journey toward Eliminating Cash

SaaS Ticketing Vendor Sees Pent Up Market Demand for Mobile Ticketing

One Year On: Denmark’s Bold Mobile-First Strategy has Reached Nearly 50% Adoption; Getting the Rest Could be More Difficult

Queensland Cites Cubic Delays, 50-Cent Fares, as Reasons for Changing Smart Ticketing Contract

Updated: Cubic Short-Listed for Must-Win Sydney Contract; Hitachi Rail, Others, Believed Out

Queensland Government Pulls Regional Bus Operators out of ‘Smart Ticketing’ Fare Project–a Loss for Cubic

Indra Executive Says Vendor would Not have Relied Only on Price to Beat Cubic in London

One Year On: Denmark’s Bold Mobile-First Strategy has Reached Nearly 50% Adoption; Getting the Rest Could be More Difficult

Updated: Cubic Short-Listed for Must-Win Sydney Contract; Hitachi Rail, Others, Believed Out

Major San Francisco Transit Operator BART to Launch Open-Loop Payments Tomorrow following Delays

Cubic Execs Seek to Calm Worries among Agencies and Employees as Its Poor Showing in London and Lawsuit against TfL Sink in

Breaking: Cubic Transportation Systems Files Legal Challenge to Transport for London Decision on Revenue-Collection Contract Award