Undergraduate students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a wearable alternative to smart cards. The group came up with the Sesame — as in “open sesame” — ring for use on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority system. Commuters simply tap the ring in the center of the card target, much like their existing Charlie Card. […]

Centrify announced availability its Centrify for Mac solution, an Active Directory-based authentication, policy management, single sign-on (SSO) and user self-service for connected and remote Mac OS X systems. With Centrify for Mac, on-premise and remote Macs and mobile devices are integrated into Microsoft Active Directory (AD), enabling organizations to leverage existing AD infrastructures, processes and […]

Identive is working together with the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore to design a new smart chip-based transit ticket for the Southeast Asian country’s extensive rail network. TransitLink, as the LTA administrator, has awarded Identive a three-year contract valued at $3.9 million to supply the tickets, which include near field communication (NFC) chips from […]

Transport for London (TfL) has launched a public proposal to seek customers’ views on the idea of discontinuing cash fare payment on all London buses by 2014, according to Kensington & Chelsea Today. This year, cash fares will make up less than one percent of bus journeys – down from 25% in 2000. Paying with […]

Transit users have launched a petition calling on TransLink to revisit a proposed “double transit fee” for cash paying bus riders that will come into effect with the introduction of the transit’s new Compass Card, according to The Vancouver Sun. Under the new system, bus passengers who pay cash fares will no longer be able […]

Cubic Transportation Systems has received a $54.5 million six-year extension to the company’s system support services contract with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). This service extension covers the repair and maintenance of Metro’s rail fare collection equipment, TAP validators for regional bus operators and the back office systems that process the TAP […]

VeriFone announced that its PAYware Wynid managed payments solution is powering passenger ticket purchases aboard France’s national railroad operated by SNCF Group. Deployment began in April with the first 1,000 handheld devices. An additional 12,000 units are expected to roll out over three months and handle an estimated 1.65 million payment transactions annually across the SNCF-managed […]

The Petition Against Passwords, a public advocacy campaign promoting “passwordless” alternatives to hack-prone usernames and passwords, announced that the campaign is gaining momentum with technology companies, legislators and the media. Passwords are a thing of the past and they need to go, according to the group. They are the weak link that smashes the security […]

Cubic Transportation Systems announced that Sydney’s Opal contactless smart card for public transport has reached a major milestone, with more than 10,000 cards issued since customer trials began by Transports for New South Wales. The Opal system, installed by the Cubic-led Pearl Consortium, is being rolled out across ferries, trains, buses and light rail in […]

The Hazardous Materials Endorsement Threat Assessment Program (HTAP) has enrolled a total of 1.5 million commercial drivers at 135 enrollment centers, according to MorphoTrust. In this program, screened, trained and vetted trusted agents collect the biographic and biometric data for the 200,000 truck drivers who require a Hazardous Materials Endorsement on their commercial driver licenses […]