Uber Expands Mobile Ticketing to More U.S. Public Transit Agencies
As expected, Uber has expanded support for public transit ticketing in its app again, this time to a consortium of 13 small and mid-tier transit agencies in Ohio and Northern…
Italy’s Fourth Largest City Latest to Launch Open-Loop Service
Transit officials in Turin, Italy, have launched acceptance of fares with contactless EMV bank cards and NFC wallets. The Covid-19 pandemic aftermath is expected to accelerate the already significant trend…
Calgary Transit Launches Mobile-Ticketing Service with Plans to Expand to Open Loop
Canada’s third largest city, Calgary, has introduced its first electronic fare payments service, offering mobile ticketing from a software-as-a-service platform provider, with plans to enable customers to pay for fares…
Transit Payments Company Head: Apple and Google Positioned to Take Bigger Piece of Payments Industry
The head of transit payments gateway and processor Littlepay said he believes that Apple and Google are well-positioned to take a “big bite out of the payment chain,” which could…
Cubic Expands Agreement with Moovit, Seeking to Drive More Use of Mobile Apps by Transit Agencies
U.S.-based Cubic Transportation Systems and Israel-based trip planning app provider Moovit, now owned by Intel, have expanded their partnership to develop mobile services for transit agencies, seeking to enable transit…
Brussels Latest European Capital to Launch Open-Loop Fare Payments
Major Brussels transit operator STIB-MIVB plans to begin accepting contactless EMV credit and debit cards and NFC wallets on Wednesday, the latest European capital to launch open-loop payments following the…
Boston Transit Agency Seeks to Put Massive Fare-Collection Project Back on Track
The massive new fare-collection system planned by Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA, which will include open-loop contactless payments and an expanded closed-loop program, has had trouble getting off…
Software-as-Service Platforms for Transit Agencies Begin to Support Open-Loop Payments
In what is believed to be a first, a transit agency in Europe plans to accept contactless credit and debit cards using a third-party software-as-a-service platform this summer, according to…
Ohio-Based Transit Agency Group Planning to Enable Mobile Ticketing Through Uber App
(This premium article was originally published in May 2020. © Mobility Payments and Forthwrite Media.) A consortium of 13 small and mid-tier transit agencies in Ohio and Northern Kentucky plans…
MaaS Backers Believe New Mobility Platforms Could Help Transit Providers Win Back Their Customers’ Trust
With Covid-19 lockdowns causing mass transit ridership in many cities to virtually fall off a cliff–with such cities as London, New York and San Francisco reporting drops of more than…
