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Dubai Transit Authority Plans to Launch Its Closed-Loop Card in More NFC Wallets

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 25, 2021 (April 5, 2021)Posted in Closed Loop, Mobile TicketingTagged Apple Pay, Closed-Loop Payments, Dubai, Huawei, RTA, Samsung Pay

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, or RTA, which in December first launched mobile fare payments with a digital version of its closed-loop card in Huawei smartphones, says it plans to expand the service to other OEMs, including Apple and Samsung. ...

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Case Study: Transit Agency in Portugal Combined NFC with BLE for Mobile Ticketing; Faced Challenges

by Dan BalabanPosted on March 22, 2021 (July 27, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Be-Out, BLE, Bluetooth Low Energy, Calypso, Littlepay, Porto, TIP

The agency that runs ticketing for 19 public bus, tram and train operators serving Porto, Portugal’s second largest city, says it has had success–and faced several challenges–with the rollout of its Anda mobile-ticketing app. [...]

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In-Depth: California Transport Group Launches Mobile Ticketing, Plans MaaS Rollout

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 1, 2021 (October 5, 2021)Posted in MaaS, Mobile TicketingTagged SaaS Ticketing

Officials in California’s Central Valley have launched an app that enables users to buy mobile tickets for bus and rail rides with seven mostly small public transit agencies, with plans to expand to ticketing for electronic car and bike sharing, along with...

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Uber Expands Mobile Ticketing to More U.S. Public Transit Agencies

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 1, 2021 (April 7, 2022)Posted in MaaS, Mobile TicketingTagged Masabi, Transit, Uber

As expected, Uber has expanded support for public transit ticketing in its app again, this time to a consortium of 13 small and mid-tier transit agencies in Ohio and Northern Kentucky–following two other U.S. transit agencies, in Denver and Las Vegas, which...

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Italy’s Fourth Largest City Latest to Launch Open-Loop Service

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 1, 2021 (August 31, 2024)Posted in Open LoopTagged Gruppo Torinese Trasporti, Italy, Turin

Transit officials in Turin, Italy, have launched acceptance of fares with contactless EMV bank cards and NFC wallets. The Covid-19 pandemic aftermath is expected to accelerate the already significant trend for transit agencies to implement open-loop fare...

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Boston Transit Agency Seeks to Put Massive Fare-Collection Project Back on Track

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 1, 2021 (October 30, 2024)Posted in Mobile Ticketing, Open LoopTagged Cubic Transportation Systems, MBTA

The massive new fare-collection system planned by Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA, which will include open-loop contactless payments and an expanded closed-loop program, has had trouble getting off the ground. Late last week,...

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Ohio-Based Transit Agency Group Planning to Enable Mobile Ticketing Through Uber App

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 1, 2021 (January 3, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Masabi, NEORide, RTD Denver, Uber

(This premium article was originally published in May 2020. © Mobility Payments and Forthwrite Media.) A consortium of 13 small and mid-tier transit agencies in Ohio and Northern Kentucky plans [...]

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As Covid-19 Causes Transit Ridership to Plummet, Mobile-Ticketing Vendors Hope to Help Bring Riders Back

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 1, 2021 (February 26, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Cubic, Masabi, Token Transit

(This premium article was originally published in May 2020. © Mobility Payments and Forthwrite Media.) As the Covid-19 crisis sows fear among mass transit customers and causes ridership on buses, [...]

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Contactless EMV Card Rollout in U.S. to Pick Up Speed in 2020, but Shape of Adoption Remains Unclear

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 1, 2021 (January 6, 2021)Posted in Open LoopTagged Surveys, U.S. Federal Reserve, Visa

With contactless EMV cards expected to have a significant footprint in the U.S. in 2020, the debate continues over whether the rollout will promote or harm take-up of NFC mobile payments and whether contactless open-loop transit payments will make a real...

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Danish Transport Officials Hire Vendor to Supply Validators for Customers Who Cannot or Will Not Use National Ticketing Apps

by Dan BalabanPosted on January 9, 2025 (January 31, 2025)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Denmark

Denmark transport-ticketing agency Rejsekort & Rejseplan today announced it had hired a vendor to supply around 9,000 validators to accept a new closed-loop card the agency plans to roll out, with open-loop payments likely coming later. The validators are...

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