During the Contactless Technology in Transportation session at CARTES, Nicole Carrol of EDS announced that London’s contactless ticketing project was officially launched. The much-anticipated name for the card is the “Oyster.” According to Ms. Carrol, the name has meaning because “the oyster protects a pearl in much the same way that the card protects the cardholder’s money.”
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