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Auckland Transport, New Zealand’s largest public transport agency, will launch open-loop payments on Sunday with its own vendor, Hitachi Rail (formerly Thales RCS). This is as national transport officials and their vendor, Cubic Transportation Systems, implement a national ticketing solution featuring open loop. This national rollout is not scheduled to reach Auckland until at least the end of 2026.
• Fact box: Details of Auckland Transport’s open-loop rollout.
• AT (Auckland Transport)
• NZTA (New Zealand)
• Hitachi Rail
• Cubic
• INIT
New Zealand’s Auckland Transport will launch open-loop payments Sunday, bringing credit and debit card acceptance to buses, trains and ferries serving the country’s largest city–at least two years before Auckland would have gotten the technology under an ongoing implementation of a national ticketing solution.
The new open-loop service in Auckland will accept four payments brands and three different mobile wallets, but will only apply to single