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

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 19, 2022 (January 28, 2022)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Cubic Transportation Systems

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’

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 6, 2022 (October 22, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Cal-ITP, Editor's Choice, Enghouse, Littlepay, Masabi, Scheidt & Bachmann

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

by Dan BalabanPosted on December 15, 2021 (December 16, 2021)Posted in Open LoopTagged Cal-ITP, Editor's Choice

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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While Interest is Growing in Going Cashless in U.S., Few Agencies have Accomplished the Feat So Far

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 13, 2021 (September 17, 2021)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Big Blue Bus, Cashless, Greater Dayton RTA

The Greater Dayton RTA, which this month stopped accepting paper passes and tickets, will hit its Nov. 1 deadline to go completely cashless on board its vehicles, an agency representative confirmed to Mobility Payments. [...]

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‘No Way We were Going to Ask for Half a Billion Dollars…’

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 1, 2021 (October 1, 2021)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Editor's Choice, Metro, Robin O'Hara

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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Masabi Seeks to Expand Beyond Mobile Ticketing and to Sign Up Large Agencies, Stoking More Competition with Suppliers Like Cubic

by Dan BalabanPosted on August 19, 2021 (August 20, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Editor's Choice, Masabi, SaaS Ticketing

UK-based software-as-a-service ticketing provider Masabi said it is targeting large transit agencies in the U.S. and beyond, seeking to sell the agencies on plugging into its SaaS platform rather than building what Masabi contends are expensive and often...

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Cubic’s MaaS Point Man: Control of MaaS Apps by VC-Funded Start-Ups Coming to an End; Whim App Chief: Not So Fast

by Dan BalabanPosted on August 4, 2021 (May 14, 2025)Posted in MaaSTagged Cubic, Editor's Choice, MaaS Global

Andy Taylor, senior director, global strategy for Cubic Transportation Systems contended that the MaaS market is at a crossroads and could fail if it doesn’t change course, including putting cities and public agencies firmly in the “driving seat” of...

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

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 29, 2021 (November 6, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged SmarTrip, WMATA

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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Regional Transit Group Enables Cash Loading in Apps

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 9, 2021 (July 9, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Cash, Masabi

Ohio-based NEORide consortium, a regional transit group that among other things, handles mobile-ticketing fare collection for 13 transit agencies in the U.S. states of Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan, is seeking to reduce cash from its members buses. It’s the...

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State of California Seeks to Change Way Transit Agencies Procure Fare Systems

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 7, 2021 (September 17, 2022)Posted in Open LoopTagged Caltrans, Editor's Choice, Littlepay, Visa

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

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

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

While Interest is Growing in Going Cashless in U.S., Few Agencies have Accomplished the Feat So Far

‘No Way We were Going to Ask for Half a Billion Dollars…’

Masabi Seeks to Expand Beyond Mobile Ticketing and to Sign Up Large Agencies, Stoking More Competition with Suppliers Like Cubic

Cubic’s MaaS Point Man: Control of MaaS Apps by VC-Funded Start-Ups Coming to an End; Whim App Chief: Not So Fast

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

Regional Transit Group Enables Cash Loading in Apps

State of California Seeks to Change Way Transit Agencies Procure Fare Systems

Miami Disqualifies Top-Ranked Cubic for $40 Million Back-Office Contract; Vendor Vows to File Objection and to ‘Pursue all Available Remedies’

In-Depth: Cal-ITP Open-Loop Procurement Program Records Biggest Year in 2025 but Several Challenges Remain

Los Angeles-Area Commuter Rail Operator Seeks to Offer Open Loop in Time for World Cup, Olympics; Hopes to Fare Better than Northern Counterpart

Denmark Confirms Plans to Shut Down Long-Established Closed-Loop Card in May as Mobile-Ticketing App Hits Two-Thirds Adoption

Miami Declines to Change Evaluation Scores in Back-Office Procurement, Leaving Cubic’s No. 1 Rank Intact

Miami Disqualifies Top-Ranked Cubic for $40 Million Back-Office Contract; Vendor Vows to File Objection and to ‘Pursue all Available Remedies’

In-Depth: Cal-ITP Open-Loop Procurement Program Records Biggest Year in 2025 but Several Challenges Remain

Miami to Reconvene Selection Committee after Vendors Challenge Cubic’s No. 1 Ranking for Back-Office Deal; Cubic Threatens Protest

Analysis: Cubic Takes Big Hit to Reputation in Losing Transport for London Contract, as Debt Woes Mount

Special Report: New York Mayor Mamdani Champions Zero-Fare Buses for NYC as Kansas City Prepares to Walk it Back