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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MaaS Expert: Mobility-as-a-Service Initiatives on Wrong Track; New ‘Framework’ Needed

Cars on Sydney expressway
Mobility as a service, at least in its present form, will not scale and has little commercial sustainability. MaaS, in fact, may never live up to its hype or see large-scale rollouts. [...]

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British Transit Agency Adds Closed-Loop Card to Google Pay for Pay-as-You-Go Fares

Tyne and Wear Metro sign
Riders on the Tyne and Wear Metro in North East England are now able to tap to pay for pay-as-you-go fares with a digital version of the closed-loop Pop card in Google Pay. [...]

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Stockholm Transit Agency Sees Strong Growth in Open-Loop Payments During First Year of Service

Stockholm, open-loop card tapping reader on bus
Nearly a year after Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, or SL, in Stockholm launched open-loop payments for its multimodal transport network, the agency was seeing around 15% of its total fare revenue coming from contactless EMV payments, according to figures...
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Italian Transit Operator and Visa Launch Open-Loop Pilot Enabling Multipassenger Fare Capping

Smart totem at bus stop-Genoa
Italian transit operator AMT along with Visa have launched a pilot of open-loop fares payments, enabling multipassenger fare capping for the first time in Italy–and probably for one of the first times globally. [...]

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