Confidex, a supplier of contactless fare media, has been selected by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) in the western area of Scotland to supply a large volume of contactless ITSO smart tickets for use across the underground Glasgow Subway system. The smart ticketing system will replace the current magnetic stripe tickets in use across the […]

Transportation for London (TfL) announced the rollout of contactless credit card readers on all of the city’s 8,500 buses last month, enabling riders to charge their bus fare directly to their bank accounts. According to The Atlantic, this will be an interesting test case for the future of contactless payments in public transportation systems, particularly […]

Smart phones have effectively penetrated virtually just about every facet daily lives, but there is one segment of the population that remains underserved; public transit users. For some time now, the “cutting edge” solution to transit tickets has been either paper-based cards or contactless cards. However, for an increasingly paperless society these solutions simply won’t […]

After countless delays, OC Transpo is expected to finally release 10,000 Presto cards into the wild in mid-January, in a partial roll out of the new payment system for Ottawa’s public transit. According to CBC News, transit riders will be able to apply to obtain the smart transit card online or at the four OC […]

The Regional Transportation District (RTD), the regional authority operating public transit services in eight of the twelve counties in the Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area in Colorado, is starting the new year off with the announcement of a new smart card program, according to The Denver Post. As part of the new electronic transit fare program, […]

Despite countless delays and numerous technical glitches, OC Transpo has decided and is moving forward with the roll out its Presto contactless smart card fare payment system, according to The Ottawa Citizen. Set to start on Jan. 18, OC Transpo will provide as many as 10,000 Presto transit cards at its sales and information centers […]

The Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Pa. has expanded the distribution of the ConnectCard electronic fare collection system to now include riders who purchase weekly passes, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Riders who buy weekly passes at the Downtown Service Center, the Giant Eagle Market District store in Shadyside and the Giant Eagle at […]

The New South Wales (NSW) Government and the Department of Transport (TfNSW) have begun trials in Sydney of the new Opal smart card system for public transport, being installed by the Cubic-led Pearl Consortium. The NSW Minister for Transport, Gladys Berejiklian, said the trials would be used to fine tune the system, which would then […]