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

Tasmania’s transport minister defended the sole-source deal with Cubic, which he said enables his smaller agency to piggyback on the vendor’s account-based ticketing system in Queensland–where the fare system will be based.

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The government of the small Australian state of Tasmania has agreed to plug into the account-based ticketing system being built by Cubic Transportation Systems in the larger state of Queensland in an apparent ‘platform-as-service’ play by Cubic.

Key Data:

• Document: Transcript of Tasmanian parliamentary committee hearing, Sept. 24, 2024

Organizations Mentioned:

• Tasmanian government
• TMR (Queensland)
• Cubic
• NZTA (New Zealand)
• Translink Systems
• NEORide
• Masabi

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 unusual move means Tasmania will get a long-delayed upgrade to a fare system that will serve

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

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