Transport for Wales (TfW) has issued a tender inviting suppliers to propose and develop a national Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) app that will enable door-to-door journey planning and payments for bus, rail, coach and taxi fares as well as for bicycle and e-scooter hire, car sharing and demand-responsive transport schemes... More
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Dutch rail network begins national rollout of contactless open loop fare payments
Passengers travelling on rail services in the Netherlands can now pay for full-fare second-class train fares with their physical or digital debit or credit card by tapping a reader at the beginning and end of their journey... More
Washington Metro lets students add digital transit passes to Apple Wallet via NFC
College students with a physical prepaid U-Pass SmarTrip transit card can now generate, store and use a digital version of it in Apple Wallet... More
Vancouver pilots wayfinding app for visually impaired transit users
Visually impaired public transportation users in Vancouver in Canada can now receive both audio instructions that guide them to bus pick-up points and real-time transit information by scanning codes at bus bays and stops with their Apple or Android smartphone... More
Delhi buses to get mobile and contactless ticketing
The Government of Delhi’s Transport Department has issued a tender inviting suppliers to design and implement a digital ticketing system on the Indian capital’s bus networks that will enable passengers to pay for their journeys via mobile ticketing, a contactless card or a RuPay-enabled National Common Mobility Card (NCMC)... More
Venice to get open loop contactless fare payments across its public transport network
Passengers travelling on buses, trams, water buses and ferries in the Italian city of Venice will soon be able to make contactless fare payments with their credit or debit card or from a digital wallet on their NFC smartphone or smartwatch... More
SEPTA pilots mobile ticketing in Philadelphia and reveals plans to roll out open loop contactless fare payments
Passengers travelling on bus, trolley and rapid transit lines in the US city of Philadelphia can now purchase, store and activate QR code tickets for up to five people travelling the same route on their Apple or Android smartphone... More
Seven in ten pay-as-you-go bus fare payments in London are now contactless
Some 1.7m fare payments for journeys on London buses are now made using a contactless payment card or mobile device every day, about 70% of all payments for pay-as-you-go bus fares in the UK capital, up from 33,000 a day in 2013 and 900,000 a day in 2017, Transport for London (TfL) reports... More
Queensland to let passengers get real-time service information at bus stops on their NFC smartphone
Passengers travelling on bus services in the Australian state of Queensland will soon be able to access bus schedules, notifications and real-time service information at more than 15,000 bus stops with a tap of their Apple or Android NFC smartphone... More
Rome extends open loop contactless fare payments to buses and trams
Passengers travelling on buses and trams in the Italian capital city of Rome will soon be able to make contactless fare payments with their physical or digital credit, debit or prepaid cards using public transportation operator Atac’s Tap & Go service... More
Amsterdam gets tap-in tap-out open loop contactless fare payments
Passengers travelling on bus, train, tram and metro services in the Dutch capital and surrounding areas can now pay their fares by tapping onboard readers or ticketing gates at the beginning and end of their journey with their contactless debit or credit card or with their Apple or Android NFC smartphone... More
Budapest to trial open loop contactless fare payments on airport shuttle bus
Passengers travelling on the 100E airport shuttle bus operated by Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (BKK) in the Hungarian capital of Budapest will soon be able to pay their fares by tapping their physical or digital contactless credit or debit card on an on-board reader... More
Ireland takes next step towards rolling out national contactless ticketing system
Ireland’s National Transport Authority (NTA) is to launch an account-based contactless ticketing solution on Dublin’s buses as a next step towards rolling out an integrated contactless fare payment system across the country’s bus, rail and other transport networks... More
Translink begins rolling out interoperable fare-capped contactless ticketing across Northern Ireland
Passengers travelling on Translink’s Metro bus services in Belfast are the first in Northern Ireland to be able to pay a flat fare for their journeys with a tap of their contactless bank card and benefit from daily fare-capping using the public transport operator’s contactless account-based ticketing system... More
New York MTA adds support for discounted tickets to Omny payments platform
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has added support for reduced fares to its Omny open loop contactless payments service, enabling eligible senior citizens and people with disabilities to receive a discount whenever they tap to pay for their subway or bus journey using their debit or credit card, smartphone or wearable device... More
Queensland rolls out open loop contactless ticketing to three additional rail lines
Passengers travelling on the Caboolture, Redcliffe Peninsula and Gold Coast railway lines in south east Queensland can now make contactless fare payments with their credit or debit card, mobile phone or smartwatch using the Australian state’s open loop ticketing system... More
Shanghai launches Mobility-as-a-Service app that rewards users for choosing greener travel options
Transportation agencies in Shanghai in China have launched a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) app that enables users to pay for their journeys by bus, ferry and metro services, book taxi rides and find and pay for parking spaces across the city from their smartphone... More
California begins rolling out support for discounted open loop contactless fare payments for older passengers
Eligible passengers aged 65 and over using Monterey-Salinas Transit (MST) buses in the US state of California will now automatically receive a discount on their fares when they tap to pay for journeys with their debit or credit card using MST’s fare-capped open loop contactless ticketing system without needing to provide any additional proof of eligibility... More
Global digital ticketing transaction values to hit US$1.4tn in 2027
Digital ticketing transaction values worldwide will exceed pre-pandemic levels next year and reach US$1.7tn in 2027, up from US$768bn in 2022, according to a forecast from Juniper Research... More
Clipper pilots contactless transit pass that provides unlimited free public transport across the San Francisco Bay Area
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and more than 20 other transit agencies that support the Clipper fare payment system in the San Francisco Bay Area of the USA are trialling a contactless transit pass that will allow passengers to take unlimited free journeys on bus, rail and ferry services in the region... More