UK Public Transit Officials in Midlands Seek to Replicate London’s Success in Pay-as-You-Go Contactless

By:

Dan Balaban

NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Transit officials in the Midlands in the UK today are calling on the government to fund a London-style contactless fare-payments system across this large section of the country, which would enable riders to tap to pay for trips on rail, bus and tram networks with either closed- and open-loop cards and credentials on smartphones.

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