Stockholm Transit Agency Sees Strong Growth in Open-Loop Payments During First Year of Service

Stockholm, open-loop card tapping reader on bus
Nearly a year after Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, or SL, in Stockholm launched open-loop payments for its multimodal transport network, the agency was seeing around 15% of its total fare revenue coming from contactless EMV payments, according to figures...
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Italian Transit Operator and Visa Launch Open-Loop Pilot Enabling Multipassenger Fare Capping

Smart totem at bus stop-Genoa
Italian transit operator AMT along with Visa have launched a pilot of open-loop fares payments, enabling multipassenger fare capping for the first time in Italy–and probably for one of the first times globally. [...]

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Milwaukee Transit Agency Announces More Details of New Fare-Collection Project Using Cubic’s Umo Platform

Milwaukee bus
The Milwaukee County Transit System today announced its plans to launch its new fare-collection system using the Umo Mobility platform from Cubic Transportation Systems in the fall. The system will support mobile fare payments and closed-loop contactless...
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French City Launches Open-Loop Fare Payments, Though France Catching Up with Other European Countries

Besançon tram
The city of Besançon in Eastern France has launched contactless open-loop fare payments supporting Visa- and Mastercard-branded credit and debit cards, as well as cards supporting France’s Cartes Bancaires domestic debit scheme. [...]

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In-Depth: Retail Payments Networks Key to Cashless Push by U.S. Transit Agencies

NYC Subway-Times Square station
Despite the strong push behind electronic fare payments and buzz around going cashless, only a few transit agencies in the U.S. have actually eliminated cash acceptance on board their buses and other vehicles or plan to do so. [...]

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