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Some Small and Mid-Tier U.S. Transit Agencies Join for Group Procurement of Fare Systems: an Emerging Trend?

by Dan BalabanPosted on April 20, 2023 (January 2, 2024)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Editor's Choice, NEORide

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Some groups of small and medium-sized transit agencies in the U.S. are looking to procure new fare or ticketing systems, hoping to get a better deal from vendors than the agencies could on their own. [...]

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Passport to Shut Down Transit-Ticketing Business at Year’s End as It Focuses on Parking

by Dan BalabanPosted on May 18, 2022 (May 19, 2022)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Passport Labs, Utah Transit Authority

U.S.-based Passport Labs confirmed that it will shut down its mobile transit-ticketing business and end all support for its platform at the end of this year, as it quietly exits the ticketing market segment. [...]

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Uber to Pilot Travel App in UK, Starting with Intercity Train and Bus Booking and Ticketing

by Dan BalabanPosted on April 7, 2022 (April 15, 2022)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Uber

Uber announced Wednesday that it would enable users of its ride-hailing app in the UK to also book and pay for tickets for intercity trains and coaches this summer, along with booking of car rentals. Plans call for adding airline and cross-channel train...

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Public Transit Ticket Sales in Transit App Continue to Grow, though Make Up Small Share of Total Fare Revenue

by Mobility Payments StaffPosted on April 6, 2022 (April 7, 2022)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Transit app

The Transit app has recorded nearly 2.5 million ticketing transactions since it began enabling transit agency customers to buy tickets in its trip-planning app in 2019, the app provider told [...]

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Collaboration with Uber and Lyft: Two Years on, Transactions Remain Low; Suspicions Run High over Data Sharing

by Dan BalabanPosted on November 18, 2021 (November 19, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Editor's Choice, Masabi, Uber

When the Regional Transportation District of Denver began enabling Uber to sell its bus and train tickets in May 2019-in the first integration of its kind in the world-it was seen as a rare example of a public transit agency and a private ride-sharing company...

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U.S. Transit Agency Eliminates Cash Acceptance on Board Its Vehicles as Planned

by Dan BalabanPosted on November 1, 2021 (November 3, 2021)Posted in Closed LoopTagged Greater Dayton RTA, Masabi

In the run-up to the elimination of cash fares on board its fixed-route buses and trolleybuses today, the Greater Dayton RTA had reduced cash payments to less than 10% of all trips, while 92% of the trips were paid for with digital payments–either...

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U.S. Transit Agency Introduces Scanning of Mobile Tickets, but Overall Move to Electronic Payments Progressing Slowly

by Dan BalabanPosted on October 5, 2021 (October 5, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Editor's Choice, Masabi, SORTA

Most mid-tier transit agencies in the U.S., like the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, or SORTA, in Cincinnati, still have to deal with high usage of cash and paper tickets on board their buses and other transit vehicles, even as the continuing...

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Masabi Seeks to Expand Beyond Mobile Ticketing and to Sign Up Large Agencies, Stoking More Competition with Suppliers Like Cubic

by Dan BalabanPosted on August 19, 2021 (August 20, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Editor's Choice, Masabi, SaaS Ticketing

UK-based software-as-a-service ticketing provider Masabi said it is targeting large transit agencies in the U.S. and beyond, seeking to sell the agencies on plugging into its SaaS platform rather than building what Masabi contends are expensive and often...

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Regional Transit Group Enables Cash Loading in Apps

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 9, 2021 (July 9, 2021)Posted in Mobile TicketingTagged Cash, Masabi

Ohio-based NEORide consortium, a regional transit group that among other things, handles mobile-ticketing fare collection for 13 transit agencies in the U.S. states of Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan, is seeking to reduce cash from its members buses. It’s the...

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Google Launches Ticketing in Maps after Delays; but Search Giant Says It has No Plans to Build MaaS App

by Dan BalabanPosted on July 7, 2021 (July 26, 2021)Posted in MaaSTagged Editor's Choice, Google, Token Transit

Google has finally enabled users to initiate purchases of public transit tickets from its Maps app, following delays. Meanwhile, rival trip-planning app providers Moovit and Transit have been quietly moving forward with signing up most of the same small U.S....

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Some Small and Mid-Tier U.S. Transit Agencies Join for Group Procurement of Fare Systems: an Emerging Trend?

Passport to Shut Down Transit-Ticketing Business at Year’s End as It Focuses on Parking

Uber to Pilot Travel App in UK, Starting with Intercity Train and Bus Booking and Ticketing

Public Transit Ticket Sales in Transit App Continue to Grow, though Make Up Small Share of Total Fare Revenue

Collaboration with Uber and Lyft: Two Years on, Transactions Remain Low; Suspicions Run High over Data Sharing

U.S. Transit Agency Eliminates Cash Acceptance on Board Its Vehicles as Planned

U.S. Transit Agency Introduces Scanning of Mobile Tickets, but Overall Move to Electronic Payments Progressing Slowly

Masabi Seeks to Expand Beyond Mobile Ticketing and to Sign Up Large Agencies, Stoking More Competition with Suppliers Like Cubic

Regional Transit Group Enables Cash Loading in Apps

Google Launches Ticketing in Maps after Delays; but Search Giant Says It has No Plans to Build MaaS App

Ridango Wins Fare Contract in Sweden’s No. 2 City after Appeals Exhausted by Mikroelektronika

Cubic Sues to Block Release of Records by LA Metro Related to Sole-Source Contract

Boston Transit Agency MBTA Sees Fast Start to Open-Loop Payments Service

EasyPark Buys Flowbird to Grow Bigger in Parking Payments; Company Says It will also Invest in Flowbird Fare Business

In-Depth: Cubic Gets Must-Win Contract in Philadelphia, Beating Accenture on Price; Incumbent Conduent Sent Packing

Cubic Sues to Block Release of Records by LA Metro Related to Sole-Source Contract

In-Depth: Cubic Gets Must-Win Contract in Philadelphia, Beating Accenture on Price; Incumbent Conduent Sent Packing

Tip Sheet: Cubic Contract Award Back on Agenda for SEPTA Board Meeting in Philadelphia

Special Report: Japan Sees Movement on Open Loop, but Rollout is Fragmented and Largest Operator Continues to Balk

Dutch Transport Agencies Set New Date for Turning Off 20-year-Old Closed-Loop Card Program–in Two Years; Will They Make It?