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The trip-planning Transit app has introduced a feature to tell users whether they can tap their contactless credit and debit cards and and open-loop credentials in digital wallets on trips with various agencies. The app provider has come up with a global, though not comprehensive, list of agencies that accept open loop in the cities the app serves. (See table below.)
• Table: Transit app-Open-Loop Agencies, Feb. 2025
• Transit
• Apple
• Google
• Masabi
• Token Transit
• MBTA (Boston)
• TriMet (Portland, Ore.)
• Metrolinx (Toronto)
• YRT (York, Can.)
• TfL (London)
• MTA (New York)
The Transit trip-planning app has introduced a feature that tells users whether the transit agency they’re looking to ride accepts open-loop payments.
The first-of-its-kind feature kicked off with a list of more than 50 transit authorities, operators and groups globally in cities where the Transit app is present. That includes in North America, Transit’s homebase; as well as Europe and Australia and New Zealand. (See table with list provided to Mobility Payments)
To be sure, the list represents a significant undercount of the transit agencies that accept open loop globally, even among the 800-plus cities where the Transit app operates. But Transit says the list is a good start.
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