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By:  Dan Balaban The Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority last month started to replace 1,200 aging fare gates for its 91-station metro system and starting next year will do the same with 20-plus year-old fareboxes on board 1,500 buses, including upgraded readers for its closed-loop SmarTrip cards. Related stories, automatically selected:  Washington, D.C.’s, SmarTrip […]

By:  Dan Balaban Visa reported this week that contactless payments continued to climb as a percentage of all face-to-face transactions with its brand, mainly at retail, and among the uses the network is continuing to push for contactless is to pay for transit fares. Related stories, automatically selected:  Rome Transit Operator: Covid Accelerates Demand for

By:  Dan Balaban Sampo Hietanen, founder and CEO of Finland-based MaaS Global, agrees with most other industry experts that public transit should form the “core” of the mobility services on offer in any MaaS app or platform. But he contends that it would be a mistake for the agency itself to control the platform. Related

By:  Kiona Smith Despite the growing popularity of contactless, NFC and QR-code technologies for electronic fare-collection, some transit agencies are experimenting with other technologies to collect fares. Related stories, automatically selected:  Case Study: Transit Agency in Portugal Combined NFC with BLE for Mobile Ticketing; Faced Challenges read more

By:  Dan Balaban (Updated case study): The chief customer and business development officer for the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority in the U.S. told Mobility Payments that a phased approach in rolling out electronic payments and quick customer adoption has enabled the agency to get close to its goal of eliminating cash on board its vehicles. Related stories,

By:  Dan Balaban Two mid-tier bus operators in Slovakia are among the latest to enable their customers to tap virtual closed-loop transit cards in Google Pay to pay fares, using a provisioning service from NXP Semiconductors. Related stories, automatically selected:  Google Launches Ticketing in Maps after Delays; but Search Giant Says It has No Plans

By:  Kiona Smith SWB Bus and Bahn, the transit agency serving the city of Bonn, is the first such operator in Germany to accept contactless EMV payments. Related stories, automatically selected:  German Transit Agency Plans to Complete Open-Loop Rollout on Buses and Trains This Quarter, Expand to Other Mobility Later Open Mobile Ticketing Alliance to

By:  Dan Balaban NFC TIMES Exclusive – Large trip-planning app provider Moovit has enabled customers of more than 50 mostly small transit agencies in the U.S. to buy mobile tickets it its app, with more agencies to come, the company confirmed to Mobility Payments. Related stories, automatically selected:  In-Depth: Transit Agency Sells Passes for Bikes and

By:  Dan Balaban There is little disputing the fact that mobility as a service has not yet lived up to its hype. And the industry’s largest automated fare collection system provider, Cubic Transportation Systems, said it believes that going forward, public transit services need to form the backbone of MaaS platforms, along with enabling more

By:  Dan Balaban As the California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans, sees it, the state’s more than 300 local transit agencies offer a fragmented and inefficient mix of fare collection systems–a fact it says discourages many potential riders among the state’s nearly 40 million residents from taking public transit. Related stories, automatically selected:  Open-Loop Payments