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Tip Sheet: Fare System Procurement in UAE Capital Canceled; New Tender Request May be Coming

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 26, 2025 (May 4, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Abu Dhabi, NEORide

Also: Visa’s Nick Mackie: Quit or Shown the Door?; Largest Agency on Multistate Ticketing Platform to Launch Fare Capping; Major Agencies Again Meet with Payments Industry [...]

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Transit App Introduces First-of-Its-Kind Feature Telling Users Where They Can Pay with Open Loop

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 5, 2025 (May 14, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Editor's Choice, Transit app

The Transit trip-planning app has introduced a feature that tells users whether the transit agency they’re looking to ride accepts open-loop payments. The first-of-its-kind feature kicked off with a list of more than 50 transit authorities, operators and...

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Ratings Agency Warns of ‘Onerous Debt Burden’ for Cubic, but Says Vendor’s Transit Clients Shouldn’t Worry

by Dan BalabanPosted on February 17, 2025 (April 28, 2025)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Cubic

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...

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Updated: Small U.S. Transit Agency Decides Not to Save Much-Used Closed-Loop Card; Replaces It with Open Loop

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 7, 2025 (January 31, 2025)Posted in Open LoopTagged Cal-ITP

A small U.S. transit agency in northeastern Pennsylvania has launched open-loop payments, with plans to shut down its closed-loop card program, which is used for more than half of its rides but which would have required a major overhaul. The agency, the...

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In-Depth: Agencies See Opportunities–as well as Challenges–in Rolling Out Account-Based Ticketing

by Dan BalabanPosted on December 5, 2024 (February 11, 2025)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Account-Based Ticketing, NEORide, NTA

Account-based ticketing offers big potential for transit agencies, but also poses challenges, a panel of representatives from agencies in Europe, the Middle East and North America that have rolled out the technology or are in the process of doing so said...

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U.S. Agency Pulls Back from Going Cashless, Citing Some Rider Complaints

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 24, 2024 (October 25, 2024)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Cashless, Masabi

A transit agency in Knoxville, Tenn., yesterday introduced account-based ticketing, fare capping and new reloadable contactless cards, all geared–at least in part–to enable the agency to eliminate cash acceptance on board its buses. It would have made...

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U.S. Agency Releases First Details about Reasons for ‘Emergency Procurement’ to Replace Fare System; is It Enough?

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 16, 2024 (November 13, 2024)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged CapMetro, Cubic, Editor's Choice, Siemens Mobility

Texas transit agency Capital Metro said 1.25 million fare transactions went unprocessed during a 30-day period last spring by its incumbent vendor, Siemens Mobility, according to the agency in a newly released document that seeks to justify the “emergency...

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Australia: Cubic Notches Contract in Tasmania by ‘Leveraging’ Its Larger Queensland Project in ‘Platform-as-a-Service’ Play

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 14, 2024 (October 14, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Australia, Editor's Choice, Tasmania

Seeking “big city” features for its fare system, the small Australian state of Tasmania has decided to plug into the back office of a much larger fare system that is under development by Cubic Transportation Systems in the state of Queensland. The...

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Cubic Planning Open-Loop Payments Product as Part of New Business Unit

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 9, 2024 (December 8, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Cubic

Cubic Transportation Systems’ new business unit, Mobility Essentials, which will oversee the vendor’s software-as-a-service ticketing platform, Umo, will also offer an open-loop payments product that has yet to launch, Mobility Payments has learned. The...

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In-Depth: Cubic’s Hardware-Free Option for Mobile Ticketing; Will It Find a Market?

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 4, 2024 (November 28, 2024)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Cubic, Umo

Cubic Transportation Systems has introduced an option for riders to scan printed QR codes with the vendor’s Umo mobile-ticketing app, targeting its main North American market. The option, first trialed by Cubic in taxis last year in Chile, is aimed at...

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Tip Sheet: Fare System Procurement in UAE Capital Canceled; New Tender Request May be Coming

Transit App Introduces First-of-Its-Kind Feature Telling Users Where They Can Pay with Open Loop

Ratings Agency Warns of ‘Onerous Debt Burden’ for Cubic, but Says Vendor’s Transit Clients Shouldn’t Worry

Updated: Small U.S. Transit Agency Decides Not to Save Much-Used Closed-Loop Card; Replaces It with Open Loop

In-Depth: Agencies See Opportunities–as well as Challenges–in Rolling Out Account-Based Ticketing

U.S. Agency Pulls Back from Going Cashless, Citing Some Rider Complaints

U.S. Agency Releases First Details about Reasons for ‘Emergency Procurement’ to Replace Fare System; is It Enough?

Australia: Cubic Notches Contract in Tasmania by ‘Leveraging’ Its Larger Queensland Project in ‘Platform-as-a-Service’ Play

Cubic Planning Open-Loop Payments Product as Part of New Business Unit

In-Depth: Cubic’s Hardware-Free Option for Mobile Ticketing; Will It Find a Market?

‘Standstill’ Period Could End as Soon as Tomorrow; Will Transport for London Sign Revenue-Collection Contract Soon?

Tip Sheet: Speculation Aside on Contract Winner, Losing London would be ‘Big Blow’ to Cubic

Transport for London Committee Approves New Revenue-Collection Contract, but Agency Stays Mum on Winner; Speculation Grows

London Contract Award Decision Imminent; Cubic Faces Challenge from Spain’s Indra

Masabi wasn't Low Bidder for Montreal Fare-System Contract; Vendor was Likely Helped by Special Pricing Clause in RFP

Tip Sheet: Speculation Aside on Contract Winner, Losing London would be ‘Big Blow’ to Cubic

Transport for London Committee Approves New Revenue-Collection Contract, but Agency Stays Mum on Winner; Speculation Grows

London Contract Award Decision Imminent; Cubic Faces Challenge from Spain’s Indra

Masabi wasn't Low Bidder for Montreal Fare-System Contract; Vendor was Likely Helped by Special Pricing Clause in RFP

Paris Transport Authority Still Insists Costs Too High to Support Open Loop, but Resistance Appears to be Falling