Transport for London’s finance committee is scheduled to take a key vote on the proposed award of the agency’s new revenue-collection contract on Monday.
The much-anticipated contract decision is expected to be worth nearly [...]
Claude Camilli, a longtime ticketing official with Paris transport authority, Île-de-France Mobilités, when asked last week why the authority doesn’t support open-loop payments, responded that costs are too high. He added that the authority had decided a...
Fare payments representatives with major transit agencies in Europe, North America and Australia have been quietly meeting to discuss merchant fees and fraud around open-loop payments, Mobility Payments has learned.
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Transport operator OASA is set to make Athens the latest European capital to roll out open-loop payments, joining London, Rome, Madrid, Amsterdam and Stockholm, along with a number of other major cities in Europe–but with a difference.
OASA is not...
Peter Torrellas this week officially took over as president of Cubic Transportation Systems, the largest fare-system supplier globally, but one that is facing major challenges in the market.
Torrellas replaces Jeffrey Lowinger, whose more than three-year...
Transit officials serving the UK’s second largest city, Birmingham, and the surrounding West Midlands region are moving forward with a London-style multimodal fare-capping system for contactless credit and debit payments, working with the major bus operator...
In April, U.S.-based Conduent created considerable buzz in the fare-collection industry when it announced it would spin off or sell its transportation business. [...]
The UK government’s plan to equip 700 rail stations over the next three years to accept contactless open-loop payments is a major initiative, as it seeks to replicate the success of London’s contactless pay-as-you go fare payments system elsewhere in the...
Mobile wallets now make up more than half of all contactless payments for Transport for New South Wales, Australia’s largest transit agency, the agency confirmed to Mobility Payments. [...]
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