Transport for London (TfL) has announced that by the end of 2012, passengers on the city’s Tube, bus, tram or train will be able to pay for their journeys with contactless bank cards, according to Silicon.com. TfL says it will work to upgrade Oyster’s software system to accept contactless debit and credit cards in time […]

The Government of Victoria may drop the problem-plagued myki smart ticketing system altogether, according to The Sydney Morning Herald. Called “a mess” by Public Transport Minister Terry Mulder, the $1.35 billion system has weathered technical issues and rising costs on top of a three year delay. Accounting firm Deloitte says that the cost of cutting […]

AT4 wireless and Collis have partnered to offer a range of test solutions for the NFC, contactless payment, transit and ID market segments. Collis’s test solutions include the SWP-HCI Test Suites and the GlobalPlatform UICC Configuration Test Suite and Aspects Spy. AT4 will add its wireless NFC and RFID conformance and R&D test tools, including […]

Sweden’s Arcontia has announced the launch its next generation embedded processor board for e-ticketing and e-payment, the ARC1800. The high performance processor board supports contactless ISO 14443 A/B RFID readers for integration into different smart card devices, including contactless smart card validators, driver consoles, turnstiles, Add Value Machines and Ticket Vending Machines. Loaded with an […]

VeriFone Systems has announced that its taxi card payment and digital media solutions are now available in London’s black cabs. After a brief pilot conducted in December, VeriFone’s system is now offered free to all of London’s licensed black cabs, allowing passengers to pay contactlessly for taxi fares without having to hand their card over […]

Washington State University, Pullman, Wash., students wanted a bike sharing program, an environmentally friendly transportation alternative, on their campus. These increasingly popular programs place a fleet of bikes in a defined geographic area–an urban location, corporate center or a campus–that can be borrowed or rented at convenient points for short periods of time. Initially the […]

Transit riders are one step closer to ditching that stack of monthly transit passes and switch to a single card they can use to ride the train and make other purchases. Two more agencies have jumped to the front of the pack in a push for an open-payment system that would allow riders to use […]

Vix Technology France is supplying the French cities of Brest, Lorient and Quimper with three different fare collection systems, all based on a single regional interoperable “KORRIGO” card. Brest has chosen a mixed system composed of magnetic tickets and KORRIGO contactless cards. These media will be validated on Vix’s V6000 validators installed in city’s 165 […]