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Netherlands Plans to Expand Open Loop to More Discount Products–as Growth in Adoption Continues to Slow

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 22, 2024 (November 5, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Netherlands, OVpay

Public transport operators in the Netherlands plan to expand the discount products that customers receive when they tap their debit cards–with the goal of offering the same discounts as riders now get with the country’s much-used national closed-loop...

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Tip Sheet: Montreal Authority Reissues RFP after Disappointing Results; Promises to be More Flexible This Time

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 16, 2024 (October 17, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Montreal, Netherland

Montreal-area transport authority, Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain, or ARTM, has reissued its call to tenders, as promised, for a new account-based ticketing system, after having cancelled the previous tender request in August because of...

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

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 14, 2024 (October 14, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Australia, Editor's Choice, Tasmania

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...

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Unreachable Goal? Denmark Seeks Adoption Rate of 90% for Its National Mobile-Ticketing Services

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 14, 2024 (September 16, 2024)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Denmark

It’s difficult for an agency retire a long-established closed-loop card, even one with an aging technology and which is expensive to maintain. But that is precisely what transport officials in Denmark propose to do. And not with open-loop payments or other...

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Death of Dutch Prepaid Bank Card Deal Shows Concept is Difficult Proposition for Agencies

by Dan BalabanPosted on September 4, 2024 (September 21, 2024)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Netherlands, OVpay

The recent break between Dutch transport-ticketing agency Translink Systems and Netherlands-based neobank bunq is another setback for the idea of using prepaid bank cards in place of closed-loop fare cards for agencies already offering open-loop...

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Updated: Netherlands Stands by Plan to Retire Much-Used Closed-Loop Card by End of 2025

by Dan BalabanPosted on June 25, 2024 (October 22, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Netherlands, OVpay

Dutch transport officials are still on track to fully retire the country’s nationwide closed-loop card program, OV-chipkaart, by the end of next year, the program director for the year-old open-loop OVpay system told Mobility Payments. OVpay, the first...

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As Use of Digital Wallets Grows with Open Loop, Transport for London and other Agencies being Hit by ‘Retokenization’ Fraud

by Dan BalabanPosted on May 23, 2024 (May 24, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Fraud, Transport for London

Digital wallets are fast becoming the preferred method of payments for transit riders using open loop, with some major agencies recording well over half of their open-loop transactions coming from mobile devices, as Mobility Payments reported. But for at...

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Growth of Open-Loop Payments Plateaus in Netherlands, but Dutch Operators Plan to Broaden Reach of Technology

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 28, 2024 (April 2, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Netherlands

Dutch transport officials are reporting that growth of open-loop payments as part of the nationwide OVpay service has leveled off during the first three months of this year after climbing in 2023. Growth may begin to accelerate again later this year,...

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TIP SHEET: Dubai Selects Vendors; Denmark Still Dealing with Cubic Appeal; High Prepaid Card Fees Expected in Netherlands

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 31, 2024 (February 1, 2024)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Dubai, Netherland

Incumbent vendors are believed to have won the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority’s AED 350 million (US$95.3 million) contract to upgrade its card-based nol system into an account-based ticketing [...]

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Search Results for: "Translink systems"

Netherlands Plans to Expand Open Loop to More Discount Products–as Growth in Adoption Continues to Slow

Tip Sheet: Montreal Authority Reissues RFP after Disappointing Results; Promises to be More Flexible This Time

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

Unreachable Goal? Denmark Seeks Adoption Rate of 90% for Its National Mobile-Ticketing Services

Death of Dutch Prepaid Bank Card Deal Shows Concept is Difficult Proposition for Agencies

Updated: Netherlands Stands by Plan to Retire Much-Used Closed-Loop Card by End of 2025

As Use of Digital Wallets Grows with Open Loop, Transport for London and other Agencies being Hit by ‘Retokenization’ Fraud

Growth of Open-Loop Payments Plateaus in Netherlands, but Dutch Operators Plan to Broaden Reach of Technology

TIP SHEET: Dubai Selects Vendors; Denmark Still Dealing with Cubic Appeal; High Prepaid Card Fees Expected in Netherlands

Debate Panel Split on Whether Transit Agencies Should Support Concessions with Open Loop

Auckland Launches Open-Loop Service as Planned, as It Awaits Implementation of National Rollout in New Zealand

Report: Conduent and State Transport Officials in Melbourne at ‘Loggerheads’ Over Contract, but State Denies Problems

Washington, D.C., Transit Agency Chooses Littlepay over Incumbent Cubic for Open-Loop Upgrade

Tip Sheet: Will Conduent Put Its Transit Fare-Collection Business on Sale Again?

U.S. Transit Agency Releases Cost Analysis for ‘Emergency Procurement,’ Raising More Questions

Washington, D.C., Transit Agency Chooses Littlepay over Incumbent Cubic for Open-Loop Upgrade

U.S. Agency Releases First Details about Reasons for ‘Emergency Procurement’ to Replace Fare System; is It Enough?

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

Tip Sheet: Washington, D.C., Short Lists Vendors for Open-Loop Payments Project

U.S. Agency CapMetro Calls ‘Emergency Procurement’ that Hired Cubic to Replace Incumbent Vendor Bytemark a ‘Pressing Urgency’