Canadian Transit Agencies Move to Enable Domestic Debit but Open Loop Expected to Continue to Take Back Seat

Credit card at terminal-STL
Montréal-area transit operator STL this month officially launched its open-loop payments service–one of the few in Canada and the largest project outside of Vancouver. [...]

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Conduent to Part with Its Transportation Business Unit, Including Fare Collection

Opus Card at terminal
U.S.-based Conduent, a business services outsourcing company, said it would sell or spin off its transportation business unit, a major automated fare-collection system supplier globally. [...]

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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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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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