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The head of fare technology for a transit agency serving a top-10 U.S. city discusses the benefits and challenges of rolling out open-loop technology.
• Factbox: open-loop project details
• Document: Add-on pricing for open-loop by MTS vendor INIT
• Document: Bids for Pronto fare project.
• MTS (San Diego)
• NCTD (N. San Diego Co.)
• Metro (Los Angeles)
• MTC (San Francisco)
• MTA (New York)
• Cal-ITP
• INIT
While touting the convenience and ease of use of open-loop payments, an official with San Diego’s Metropolitan Transit System recently called for more “standards” and consistency in implementation of the technology.
Israel Maldonado, director of fare technology and operations for MTS, speaking at a recent conference,
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