Milwaukee Transit Agency Announces More Details of New Fare-Collection Project Using Cubic’s Umo Platform

Milwaukee bus
The Milwaukee County Transit System today announced its plans to launch its new fare-collection system using the Umo Mobility platform from Cubic Transportation Systems in the fall. The system will support mobile fare payments and closed-loop contactless...
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In-Depth: Retail Payments Networks Key to Cashless Push by U.S. Transit Agencies

NYC Subway-Times Square station
Despite the strong push behind electronic fare payments and buzz around going cashless, only a few transit agencies in the U.S. have actually eliminated cash acceptance on board their buses and other vehicles or plan to do so. [...]

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Updated: Contract for New Fare-Collection System in Milwaukee Goes to Cubic

Transit officials in Milwaukee, WI, plan to launch a new fare payments system and are believed to have chosen Cubic Transportation Systems’ software-as-a-service Umo platform for the project, Mobility Payments has learned. [...]

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Multiple Vendors Disqualified in Bidding to Supply Open-Loop Technology for California’s ‘Mobility Marketplace’

Buses in downtown LA
A number of well-known industry vendors that bid on two much-anticipated contracts from the state of California to the supply open-loop payments technology to transit agencies statewide were disqualified last month, mostly for failing to meet strict...
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Denver Transit Agency Sees Some Growth in Mobile Ticketing During Pandemic, but Not Large Increase

RTD Denver train in station
The Regional Transportation District, or RTD, of Denver, continues to see only modest increases in mobile ticketing from third-party apps, and overall use of mobile ticketing has not greatly expanded during the pandemic, Mobility Payments has learned....
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