The Roads and Transport Authority, or RTA, in Dubai has been evaluating proposals from at least five vendors for the overhaul of its fare-collection system, Mobility Payments has learned. […]
Denmark plans to introduce a national mobile transit-ticketing system that will eventually replace the country’s closed-loop contactless card, Rejsekort, and perhaps other physical fare media. […]
Users of open-loop payments in France are mainly tourists and occasional riders paying for single tickets–not the transit agencies’ regular customers–the head of a company that implements closed-loop mobile NFC ticketing in France, told Mobility Payments. […]
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. […]
Transit agencies planning to roll out new electronic fare-collection systems have typically hired automated fare-collection vendors to handle the entire projects, from supplying the validators and payments processing to building or procuring the back office and integrating the various parts into a complete system. […]
One of the main selling points for open-loop payments is that it offers a form of interoperability that enables riders to use the same credit or debit card to pay their fares whether they ride in London, New York or Singapore. […]
Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, whose metropolitan area is home to more than 30 million people, is notorious for its stifling traffic congestion. In response, the government metro and light-rail networks and now it is funding an expansion of the fare-collection system to enable more multimodal payments and to build a mobility-as-a-service platform. […]
The recent move by CTS, the transit agency serving the French city of Strasbourg, to make its NFC mobile-ticketing service available to users of nearly all Android phones, could signal greater use of Google’s host-card emulation technology by supporters of Calypso, one of the world’s major technologies for closed-loop fare cards. […]
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