The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance announced that austriamicrosystems has joined as a full member. Since joining the OSPT Alliance, austriamicrosystems will have access to the CIPURSE open standard specification, leveraging its experience into embedded systems for mobile fare collection applications. The open standard promotes vendor neutrality and cross-vendor system interoperability with reduced […]

Students from the Art Institute of California, San Bernardino, have joined other students from other area colleges in using their ID cards to ride the local Omnitrans buses. With a simple swipe of their card, students can ride the buses at anytime on any route, not just to and from campus. Swiping the ID cards […]

Cubic Transportation Systems and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) have entered into a collaborative partnership to research the next generation of intelligent travel technologies for cities. Cubic will contribute $500,000 over five years to the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering to fund research done by faculty, students and Cubic […]

Mobile operator 2degrees has partnered with contactless transit card provider Snapper to bring NFC payments to the city of Wellington, New Zealand. The new “Touch2Pay” service is now available on 2degrees’ LG Optimus Net phones, which can be used to make tap and go payments wherever Snapper cards are accepted, including buses, taxis, shops and […]

Arcontia Technology AB, a Swedish producer of contactless smart card readers and terminals, has won a contract for devices to be used by Norwegian public transport authority Ruter AS. Beginning in August 2012, ARC3300T5 smart card terminals from Arcontia will be used for reloading Mifare DESFire travel cards via the new online national order database, […]

In ABI Research’s newest market study analysis, NXP Semiconductors has reportedly claimed the top spot in the contactless ticketing market with 74% of the market share. Historically, the market has been dominated by proprietary systems such as MIFARE and Calypso, despite some security concerns. Although, moves are currently underway that could potentially open up the […]

In Transport Ticketing Authority (TTA) in Melbourne, Australia is making a questionable decision by deciding to do away with its paper tickets on buses and V/Line inter-urban services, according to theage.com.au. The myki card is set to replace the preexisting paper Metcard tickets in metropolitan Melbourne by the end of the year – meaning anyone […]

Calgary, Alberta is pushing forward with the anticipated summer launch of a new smart card payment system for public transit, according to the Calgary Herald. Calgary Transit began testing this week it’s newly dubbed “Connect” electronic fare payment platform, which allows transit users to tap smart cards in lieu of cash, tickets or passes. Connect […]