National Transport Commission (NTC), Sri Lanka has introduced a new bus fare system that will enable passengers to pay their bus fare using a prepaid smart transit card, according to The Sunday Times. The new prepaid smart transit card enables passengers to board the bus and simply run the card by the installed payment terminal, […]

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City is planning to add a $1 charge to almost all new MetroCards, according to Queen Chronicle. Beginning in 2013, the authority will start imposing the “green fee” that is aimed to encourage riders to continue reloading money on their existing cards rather than discarding empty ones and […]

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the regional transportation planning agency for the Bay Area, has opened a new Oakland Clipper customer service center for commuters in the East Bay to now have a more convenient option to access to regional transit fare-payment system. Together with Oakland-based transit agency AC Transit, Clipper now has a third […]

StarHub, one of Singapore’s major telecos, has unveiled its “SmartWallet” NFC mobile wallet app. Developed in collaboration with bank DBS, transit smart card company EZ-Link and MasterCard, SmartWallet will enable StarHub customers to use three different contactless payment cards on an NFC-enabled smart phone – DBS One.Tap, NFC EZ-Link purse and NFC FEVO pre-paid MasterCard. […]

Access IS is supplying Alaskan Airlines with 350 new boarding gate readers (BGRs) that can be upgraded to support NFC phones. Access’ BGR135 unit comes with the ability to scan both mobile and print 2D bar codes, but can be upgraded to accommodate NFC by simply swapping the original base for an NFC-enabled one, according […]

Taiwan’s Cathay United Bank has announced a partnership with Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) to launch an NFC payments pilot on the Taipei public transit network. The pilot uses NFC-enabled Mobile Security Card SWP microSD cards from G&D Secure Flash Solutions, which bank customers can pop into their mobile phones to make contactless mobile payments for […]

Cubic Transportation Systems has expanded the regional transit access pass (TAP) card system in Los Angeles County to include the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), the region’s second largest bus operator. LADOT is the 12th transit operator in the region to join TAP, and is the second largest bus operator on TAP, after MTA. […]

Cubic Transportation Systems has received an extension to their system support services contract – an increase of approximately $9 million – from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency (Metro). The extension covers components of the universal fare system (UFS) fare collection system that is the foundation of the regional contactless smart card branded as […]