Railway and public transport ticketing news – Page 21
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Metro Report InternationalMobile ticketing technology framework published
TICKETING: Embedded applications industry association GlobalPlatform has published a technical framework designed in collaboration with the Smart Ticketing Alliance and mobile operators' organisation GSMA which aims to ensure that interoperable mobile ticketing is brought to market efficiently and securely. GlobalPlatform Systems End-to-End Simplified Service Management Framework Transport v1.0.0 specifies the ...
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Metro Report InternationalKeeping up with ticketing technology
As transport ticketing technology moves ahead at a rapid pace, what are the similarities and differences in cities around the world?
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Metro Report InternationalSingapore contactless ticketing pilot to begin in March
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority and Mastercard will launch an account-based fare payment pilot on March 20. This will allow passengers to use contactless credit and debit cards for fare payments on the metro and buses. LTA and Mastercard signed a partnership agreement for the pilot last year, ...
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Metro Report InternationalLondon’s contactless payment goes global
CONTACTLESS: Cubic Transportation Systems ‘inevitably learned a lot about the processes of the payment industry’ through working with Transport for London on the roll-out of contactless payment, John Hill, Managing Director Europe, told Metro Report International at the Transport Ticketing Global 2017 conference, and such experience means ...
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Metro Report InternationalSmart card testing simulator to be launched
SMART CARD: Later this year Austrian company Arsenal Testhouse is to launch a software-based simulator which will enable the functionality of smart cards and other payment systems to be tested to see whether a new product would be likely to pass formal validation against technical standards. While ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransport for London renews contactless payment processing contract
UK: Transport for London has renewed Barclaycard’s contract to provide transaction processing services for contactless payment. The merchant acquirer contract runs for seven years, with an option for a further three years. Contactless payments was rolled out across TfL services in September 2014, and now accounts for ...
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NewsReforms aim to ‘blow the dust off’ UK rail ticketing system
UK: A complete overhaul of the structure of Great Britain’s fares system is being planned by the Rail Delivery Group, with the aim of reflecting changes in the way passengers now travel and enabling bidders for future franchises to put forward more innovative ideas for ticketing. ...
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Metro Report InternationalReplacing paper tickets with mobile is 'only the start'
UK: Rambus Ecebs announced at the Smart Ticketing Global conference held in London last month that its Nevis Technologies joint venture with Strathclyde Partnership for Transport would be using the Glasgow Subway to pilot the company’s latest mobile ticketing product. Roll-out is expected to begin with selected ...
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NewsComprehensive mobility cuts the mustard
FRANCE: A new operations contract for the Divia public transport network in Greater Dijon came into effect on January 1, with an expanded scope. In addition to managing the bus and tram networks, Keolis will be responsible for cycle hire and car parking. Keolis says that this ‘comprehensive mobility approach’ ...
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Metro Report InternationalLast-mile app integrates Amtrak, Uber and buses
USA: North Carolina Department of Transportation and technology company TransLoc have launched a three-month pilot of a door-to-door journey planning app which highlights options to use Uber and local public transport services to access nine stations on Amtrak’s Piedmont and Carolinian routes. Users enter their preferred station into the Rider ...
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NewsJR East offers Suica on Apple Pay
JAPAN: East Japan Railway is to offer its Suica smart ticketing and contactless payment system on Apple Pay from October, having redesigned Suica for iPhone7 and Apple Watch Series 2 devices. Users can add their Suica card or season ticket to their device, keeping all their credit and pre-paid cards ...
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NewsNorthern Ireland ticketing upgrade
UK: Northern Ireland Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard announced on September 5 that Parkeon has been selected to modernise ticketing under a £45m investment programme. ‘The current ticketing system was introduced 15 years ago and serves around 80 million passenger journeys every year’, said Hazzard, adding that ‘a high quality ...
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NewsSingapore to pilot account-based ticketing
SINGAPORE: Land Transport Authority and Mastercard have signed a partnership agreement for the launch of account-based metro and bus ticket payment by the end of this year. They aim is to attract at least 100 000 users for the pilot deployment. Mastercard customers will be able to use their contactless ...
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NewsOV-chipkaart to be converted from smart card to ID-based system
NETHERLANDS: Trans Link Systems which manages the OV-chipkaart national multi-modal fare collection system has awarded Scheidt & Bachmann, Octopus Applications and independent ID-based ticketing specialist BlueBridge Transactions a contract to convert the technology from a smart card-based system where data is stored on a user’s card to an account-based system ...
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NewsCubic licences London’s contactless ticketing technology
UK: A licensing agreement enabling Cubic Transportation Systems to adapt Transport for London's contactless ticketing technology for deployment in other cities was signed on July 13. TfL said the non-exclusive agreement is potentially worth £15m, and would enable CTS to ‘combine the best features from London and other Cubic systems ...
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NewsMobile ticketing comes to New York commuter rail
USA: New York MTA has introduced m-ticketing on its Long Island Rail Road and Metro North commuter rail networks using technology provided by mobile fare collection specialist Masabi.Using Masabi’s JustRide mobile ticketing platform, passengers are able to purchase tickets using their smart phones as an alternative to a vending machine. ...
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NewsNew Myki contract awarded
AUSTRALIA: Public Transport Victoria has selected current operator NTT Data to manage the Myki smart ticketing system for seven years from January 1 2017. The new contract is worth just under A$700m, and uses a fixed-price model with stronger performance requirements designed to transfer a greater share of commercial liability ...
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NewsLille rolls out Euro 2016 contactless wristband tickets
FRANCE: Contactless wristband tickets have been introduced on the Transpole metro, tram and bus networks in Lille in time for the UEFA Euro 2016 football championship. The city’s Stade Pierre Mauroy is one of 10 participating venues, and will see six matches between June 12 and July 1, including one ...
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NewsAndroid Pay for pay-as-you-go travel in London
UK: Transport for London announced it had become ‘the first transport organisation in the world to accept Android Pay as a method of ticketing’ with the UK launch of Android Pay on May 18. Passengers can use the Android Pay app on mobile devices to travel on London Underground, bus, ...
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NewsSydney to use London-style open payment technology
AUSTRALIA: ‘Open payment’ technology enabling passengers to use credit and debit cards instead of dedicated ticket media is to be trialled in Sydney during 2017, New South Wales Minister for Transport & Infrastructure Andrew Constance announced at the Future Transport Summit on April 18. The announcement was welcomed by ...