Transport for London’s finance committee approved the agency’s new revenue-collection contract earlier this week, but the agency declines to say who won, promising only that the winning vendor will be announced “in due course.”
As Mobility Payments...
UK-based Masabi has won a contract reported to be worth at least CA$125 million (US$91.1 million) from Montreal-area transport authority ARTM, beating out Cubic Transportation Systems, likely incumbent Conduent Transportation and four other suppliers.
It's...
Swiss Federal Railways, or SBB, is preparing for a switch of vendors for its well-known digital-ticketing service EasyRide, which is seeing growing usage for the GPS-based, pay-as-you-go ticketing offer.
The national rail operator told Mobility Payments it...
Fairtiq, the technology supplier behind Denmark’s much-watched national ticketing app, told Mobility Payments this week that the loss of a major contract for a similar service it’s enabled for years in Switzerland, while “naturally a challenge,” would...
High tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump last week likely will hike costs for fare-system vendors, which are expected to pass on at least part of the increases to transit agencies, fare industry veterans told Mobility Payments.
Most industry...
The chief of fare-system supplier Ridango says the vendor doesn’t plan “any shift in the company’s strategic direction” now that it has a new majority owner. But he added that the company will be “more active in mergers and acquisitions.”
Ridango...
S&P Global, a major ratings agency, has downgraded Cubic Corp.’s credit rating to CCC+ from an already low B-, warning of an "onerous debt burden" for the company that includes Cubic Transportation Systems.
The primary analyst for the ratings change told...
Montreal-area transport authority, Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain, or ARTM, has reissued its call to tenders, as promised, for a new account-based ticketing system, after having cancelled the previous tender request in August because of...
While touting the convenience and ease of use of open-loop payments, an official with San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System recently called for more “standards” and consistency in implementation of the technology.
Israel Maldonado, director of fare...
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