Schenectady County Community College has inked an agreement with the Capital District Transportation Authority so that students, faculty, and staff can get more out of their campus ID cards. According to the Times Union, the agreement will enable campus cardholders to access the entire CDTA system, including regular transit buses, express and shuttle routes, the […]

Gemalto announced that it is providing Colsubsidio, a Compensation Fund in Colombia, with multi-application EMV cards. The Multi Service Membership Card provides all Colsubsidio members with the security of EMV payment, combined with a range of services. These services include an e-purse application, admittance to recreational parks, as well as access to sport and convention […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance has published version 1.0 of its Cipurse open ticketing standard to the public for ‘reading and evaluation.’ Designed to give transit authorities ‘future-proof’ fare collection systems, the Cipurse specification will enable technology suppliers to develop and deliver interoperable fare collection solutions via contactless cards, stickers, fobs, mobile […]

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville has launched a pilot bike sharing system which enables users to swipe their university ID card to check out and return bikes to the station when finished. The system will include two bike sharing stations, each with ten bikes – seven electric bicycles and three standard bicycles. Each electric bicycle […]

Will Judge, head of future ticketing at Transport for London, has promised that confidential information stored on a user’s contactless bank card will be “100 percent safe” from fraud, according to ZDNet UK. TfL, which announced plans last year to adopt contactless credit card payments on top of its existing Oyster card system, maintains that […]

Washington D.C.’s School District’s new program to shift all of its student transit passes to the new D.C. One Card has become bogged with problems, including technical glitches in Metro’s fare system, according to the Washington Examiner. City officials spent the Labor Day weekend processing a backlog of 2,500 cards, and then hand-delivered them around […]

FirstGroup, the UK’s largest bus and rail operator, has announced it will invest £27 million in contactless ticketing technology for its 5,000 plus bus fleet throughout England. The company says they intend to be the first bus operator outside of London to accept contactless credit and debit card payments, which will be introduced across England […]

Delphi Automotive has unveiled a new NFC-enabled smart key fob at this year’s IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany. According to Delphi, the new key fob uses NFC technology to provide a ‘constant link’ to vehicle information, allowing the driver to better monitor and manage their vehicles. For example, a driver could use the […]