Case Study: BONNsmart Project Seeks to Introduce Open-Loop Payments to Cash-Loving Germany
SWB Bus and Bahn, the transit agency serving the city of Bonn, is the first such operator in Germany to accept contactless EMV payments. [...]Read More
Moovit Moves Forward to Enable Ticketing and Payments in App with More Transit Agencies
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…
Cubic: Recent MaaS Company Failures among Signs Pointing to Need for ‘MaaS 2.0’
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…
Regional Transit Group Enables Cash Loading in Apps
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…
Fare System Supplier: Check-in/Be-out Systems Have Advantages Some Transit Agencies Looking for
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
State of California Seeks to Change Way Transit Agencies Procure Fare Systems
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…
Calypso Backers Seek to Expand Mobile Ticketing on Android Phones
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…
Google Launches Ticketing in Maps after Delays; but Search Giant Says It has No Plans to Build MaaS App
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…
More Transit Agencies Seek to Eliminate Cash Using Retail Cash Points, Fintechs
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,…
Case Study: One U.S. Transit Agency’s Journey toward Eliminating Cash
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…
