England edges towards a single national multimodal ticketing system
A new group has been set up to develop a national ‘tap and cap’ ticketing solution for England... More
Buses
UK bus operator to launch first trial of Google Wallet fare tracking
Bus operator Brighton & Hove Buses is to be the first in the UK to pilot a feature that enables passengers with Android devices to access their journey history, track their spending and check their progress towards daily or weekly fare caps directly in Google Wallet... More
Budapest pilots open loop contactless fare payments on airport shuttle bus
Hungarian transit authority Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (BKK) has begun trialling an open loop contactless fare payment system that enables passengers to pay their fares on the 100E airport shuttle bus in Budapest by tapping an onboard validator with their physical or digital debit or credit card... More
SEPTA begins testing open loop contactless fare payments
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has begun trialling an open loop contactless fare payment system that enables passengers to pay for their journeys with their physical or digital credit card... More
Toronto gets open loop contactless fare payments
Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) in Canada has added support for open loop contactless fare payments, enabling passengers travelling on streetcars, buses and Wheel-Trans para-transit vehicles in the city to pay fares with a tap of their physical or digital credit or debit card... More
Genoa rolls out multimodal MaaS app that supports fare-capped hands-free Bluetooth ticketing
Passengers using bus, rail and other public transport services in the Italian city of Genoa can now pay for their journeys from their smartphone without having to take their device out of their pocket or bag... More
New York’s Omny system tops 1bn taps for contactless fare payments
Passengers on New York’s subway and bus services have now tapped their contactless bank or transit card, smartphone or wearable device to pay fares using the Omny open loop fare payment system more than 1bn times since it launched in May 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) reports... More
Transport for NSW adds Apple Pay Express mode to Opal contactless ticketing system
Apple users travelling on public transport services operated by Transport for NSW in the Australian state of New South Wales can now make contactless payments for their journeys with their iPhone or Apple Watch without needing to unlock their device... More
Moscow Metro reports 320,000 face biometric fare payment users
More than 320,000 passengers have now used Moscow Metro’s FacePay face biometrics service to pay for more than 67m trips, the transportation operator reports, up from 220,000 registered users and 32m journeys in January 2023... More
Chinese city begins accepting central bank digital currency for fare payments on all buses
Public transportation users in the Chinese city of Jinan can now use the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) to pay their fares on any of the area’s buses... More
Auckland Transport to roll out open loop contactless payments ‘within the next 12 months’
Public transportation users in Auckland, New Zealand, will be able to pay their bus, train and ferry fares using a contactless debit/credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay “within the next 12 months”, the city’s transport authority has announced. ... More
The Netherlands completes rollout of OVpay national contactless ticketing system
Public transportation users in the Netherlands can now make use of a single, national, integrated contactless ticketing system to pay for their train, bus, tram and metro fares throughout the country, with no need to pre-purchase a ticket or top up a travel card... More
Greece to get contactless open loop fare payments on buses in 33 cities and islands
Passengers using bus services across 33 cities and islands in Greece will soon be able to make contactless fare payments for their journeys using their own locally issued or international credit, debit or prepaid card... More
North Wales buses get interoperable fare-capped contactless payments
Passengers on buses in North Wales can now make contactless fare payments on services run by 25 different local operators with their debit or credit card using an interoperable fare-capped ticketing system rolled out across nearly 200 routes in the region... More
Austria launches nationwide multi-modal ‘swipe on, swipe off’ mobile fare payments
Passengers travelling on rail, bus, tram and subway services across the whole of Austria can now make contactless end-to-end fare payments for single or multi-modal journeys with two swipes on their smartphone screen using a ticketing function added to the Austrian Federal Railways ÖBB Tickets app... More
Germany to issue contactless monthly passes for unlimited multi-modal travel on transport services nationwide
Public transport users in Germany will soon be able to purchase a physical or digital contactless travel pass that will enable them to make unlimited journeys on local and regional public transport services across the entire country for a fixed monthly fee... More
NJ Transit adds cash top-ups to mobile ticketing app
Passengers using NJ Transit services across the US state of New Jersey who do not have a bank account or a debit or credit card can now use cash to fund the purchase of digital tickets and passes for travel on bus, train or light rail services on their smartphone... More
Tampa Bay transit authorities roll out open loop contactless ticketing with fare capping
Passengers travelling on bus and trolleybus services across the Tampa Bay region of Florida in the US can now make contactless fare payments using their physical contactless credit, debit or prepaid card or via Apple Pay or Google Pay on their NFC smartphone or wearable... More
NFC Forum explains how NFC tags and devices can be used to facilitate mobility-as-a-service solutions
KNOWLEDGE CENTRE: A new white paper from the NFC Forum that explains how NFC technology can be used to facilitate the implementation of mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solutions by enabling appropriate levels of authentication across a range of use cases is now available to download from the NFCW Knowledge Centre... More
Bank of Montreal drops debit card transaction fees for contactless fare payments across Canada
Bank of Montreal (BMO) customers can now use their debit card to make contactless fare payments on services operated by transit authorities throughout Canada without their journeys counting towards their monthly free transaction limit... More