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Adelaide Metro, which serves Australia’s fifth largest city, plans to roll out open-loop payments throughout its transport network, including on its most-used mode, buses. But the agency has no plans, at least in the near future, to support concessionary discounts with open loop. Concessions make up a large share of rides.
• Chart: Share of Concessionary Fares
• Chart: Share of Bus, Train & Tram Fares
• Adelaide Metro
• Transport NSW (Sydney)
• Conduent
• CBA (Australia)
Adelaide Metro, which serves Australia’s fifth largest city, plans to roll out open-loop payments throughout its transport network, including on its most-used mode, buses.
The agency is now installing around 1,300 validators on board buses for the rollout of the open-loop service by the end of this year. It’s following that with installation of another 1,100 validators on trains,