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Dutch transport officials still plan to retire the nearly 20-year-old closed-loop card program OV-chipkaart by the end of 2025. But by that time no more than 30% of trips are expected to be paid for through the OVpay open-loop system.
The percentage of total trips paid for via open loop had grown from 2.5% in January 2023 to 11.6% in August 2023. After that, it largely leveled off during the following seven months before hitting another growth spurt over the past two months.
• GVB (Amsterdam)
• RET (Rotterdam)
• Translink (Netherlands)
• Arriva Netherlands
Dutch transport officials are still on track to fully retire the country’s nationwide closed-loop card program, OV-chipkaart, by the end of next year, the program director for the year-old open-loop OVpay system told Mobility Payments.
OVpay, the first major nationwide open-loop system globally, will likely only account for 25% to 30% of
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