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California Issues Notice of Intent to Award Contracts to Vendors for Planned Statewide Open-Loop Payments Rollout

by Dan BalabanPosted on Posted in Open LoopTagged ,
Phone at terminal in Santa Barbara
California state officials late Tuesday released a list of seven bidders it intends to award contracts to for the supply of core technology for the state’s ambitious plan to help more than 300 transit agencies roll out open-loop fare payments statewide....
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Updated: Transit Agency Still Plans to Conduct Open-Loop Payments Trial

by Dan BalabanPosted on Posted in Open LoopTagged ,
California transit agency Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District said it plans to launch a pilot of contactless open-loop payments in early 2022, as it seeks to increase customer convenience and reduce use of cash on board its buses, Mobility Payments has...
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‘No Way We were Going to Ask for Half a Billion Dollars…’

by Dan BalabanPosted on Posted in Closed LoopTagged , ,
Unlike other major transit agencies in the U.S., which have spent hundreds of millions of dollars replacing or upgrading their fare-collection systems, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has taken a different approach. [...]

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Major Transit Agency to Test Virtual Closed-Loop Cards with Google Pay

by Mobility Payments StaffPosted on Posted in Closed LoopTagged , ,
Hand holding smartphone with virtual Troika card at gate.
Moscow Metro is launching a trial of a virtual version of its closed-loop Troika card that will be added to the Google Pay wallet, the agency announced Wednesday. [...]

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WMATA in D.C. Rolling Out New Terminals but has No Immediate Plans to Support Open Loop

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The Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority last month started to replace 1,200 aging faregates for its 91-station metro system and starting next year will do the same with 20-plus year-old fareboxes on board 1,500 buses, including upgraded...
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State of California Seeks to Change Way Transit Agencies Procure Fare Systems

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Card at terminal-Monetery-Salinas Transit
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 says discourages many potential riders among the state’s...
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