Exclusive: French Cities Make Move to Open-Loop Payments, Though Paris Holds Back

Open-Loop Payment Dijon
France had fallen behind such open-loop payments hotspots in Europe as the UK and Italy. But it has been catching up over the past couple of years, starting with small to medium-sized cities. [...]

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MaaS Expert: Mobility-as-a-Service Initiatives on Wrong Track; New ‘Framework’ Needed

Cars on Sydney expressway
Mobility as a service, at least in its present form, will not scale and has little commercial sustainability. MaaS, in fact, may never live up to its hype or see large-scale rollouts. [...]

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Stockholm Transit Agency Sees Strong Growth in Open-Loop Payments During First Year of Service

Stockholm, open-loop card tapping reader on bus
Nearly a year after Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, or SL, in Stockholm launched open-loop payments for its multimodal transport network, the agency was seeing around 15% of its total fare revenue coming from contactless EMV payments, according to figures...
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Italian Transit Operator and Visa Launch Open-Loop Pilot Enabling Multipassenger Fare Capping

Smart totem at bus stop-Genoa
Italian transit operator AMT along with Visa have launched a pilot of open-loop fares payments, enabling multipassenger fare capping for the first time in Italy–and probably for one of the first times globally. [...]

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Paris Transit Authority Confirms Plans to Launch Closed-Loop Navigo Cards on Android and Apple Devices

Île-de-France Mobilités train
Île-de-France Mobilités, the large Paris transit authority serving Paris and the surrounding region, has confirmed that a digital version of its Navigo closed-loop fare card will be available on both Android and iOS devices, although the availability with...
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