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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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Scheidt & Bachmann Believed to have Lost U.S. Contract, though Few Details Leak about Likely Termination of Deal

by Dan BalabanPosted on February 28, 2025 (April 28, 2025)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Editor's Choice, Scheidt & Bachmann

Vendor Scheidt & Bachmann is believed to have lost a major contract it was awarded in 2021 to overhaul the fare system of Baltimore and the surrounding metropolitan area by…

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Victoria Transport Minister Announces Plans for Launch of Open-Loop Payments Next Year, but Government is Light on Specifics

by Dan BalabanPosted on February 24, 2025 (March 6, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Melbourne

he Victoria state government in Australia has announced plans to launch open-loop payments by early next year, though has released few specifics, which has raised some skepticism among observers. Gabrielle…

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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

Scheidt & Bachmann Believed to have Lost U.S. Contract, though Few Details Leak about Likely Termination of Deal

Victoria Transport Minister Announces Plans for Launch of Open-Loop Payments Next Year, but Government is Light on Specifics

Maitland Out at Cubic; CTS President Montgomery-Torrellas to Take Over ‘Growth’ Position Himself

Update on Swedish Procurements, including One Recent Validator Competition Attracting Nine Bidders

Canada’s BC Transit Plans to Launch Open-Loop Payments, as Cubic Seeks to Keep Pace in SaaS-Ticketing Market

Seoul to Support Open-Loop Payments by Next Year on Buses, 2027 on Metro

Cubic’s Recently Installed Head of Europe Departs Abruptly; Maitland Under Pressure

Maitland Out at Cubic; CTS President Montgomery-Torrellas to Take Over ‘Growth’ Position Himself

Cubic’s Recently Installed Head of Europe Departs Abruptly; Maitland Under Pressure

Cubic Contends It was Low Bidder and should have Won London Contract; Claims Unfair Treatment, Possible Conflict of Interest as Details of Lawsuit Emerge

Review of New Zealand National Fare Project Predicts More ‘Significant Delays’ and Likely Cost Overruns; Government in ‘Commercial' Talks with Cubic, Others

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