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Dutch transport officials project closed-loop payments will make up a larger share of transport payments than open loop after the rollouts of both technologies are complete. That’s despite the country’s ongoing national rollout of open-loop payments supporting all discounts.
• Chart: OVpay-open-loop share of total trips, April 2025
• Table: OVpay-Stats, April 2025
• Translink (Netherlands)
• NS (Netherlands)
• GVB (Amsterdam)
• RET (Rotterdam)
• Thales DIS
• bunq
Dutch transport operators and their national ticketing agency have disclosed updated details for rolling out a new white-label closed-loop card, while adding two months to the date when they plan to finally retire the country’s 20-year-old, Mifare-based closed-loop card, Mobility Payments has learned.
The group of nine transport operators and ticketing agency Translink Systems, which is overseeing the world’s first truly nationwide rollout of open-loop payments, is also projecting that closed-loop will remain the dominant fare payments method in the country.
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