Cubic Transportation Systems has been approved by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to deliver the agency’s open standards fare system (OSFS) to suburban bus operator Pace. The open payment system will enable CTA and Pace customers to pay their transit fares with any contactless bank card that conforms to industry standards. NFC-enabled mobile phones with […]

New research from Barclaycard reveals that the contactless payment symbol is now recognized by the vast majority of British people. More than 80% of the public – nearly double the figure from a year ago – can identify the contactless symbol, with people in London and the North West the quickest to adopt the new […]

Cubic Corporation announced that its public transport in the Australian state of Queensland has reached a major milestone with the sale of the three millionth go card. Designed and delivered by Cubic Transportation Systems Australia, the go card electronic ticketing system was fully deployed across TransLink in mid-2008, allowing riders to travel seamlessly on all […]

Cabcharge, a company specializing in taxi payment technologies, recently hit the 2 million contactless payment transactions milestone, according to ZDNet. The company, with payment terminals already widely used across taxis in Australia, is also expecting that number to rise exponentially. Cabcharge particularly has high hopes for MasterCard and Visa contactless payments, which have each racked […]

Visa’s highly anticipated “contactless revolution” which was to take place at London 2012 Olympics fell up a little short, according to The Guardian. With more than 20 million contactless cards in circulation in the UK, the card provider revealed that only 150,000 payments in the Games venues were made using wave and pay technology. Visa’s […]

With school just around the corner, Clipper is encouraging Santa Clara County students to get their free Clipper Youth card in order to continue taking advantage of discount fares. By obtaining a Clipper Youth card students, ages 5 to 17, can purchase a Youth Monthly Pass from Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) for $45. […]

The Metro EZ transit pass, a monthly pass good for local travel on 24 different public transit carriers throughout the Greater Los Angeles region, is planning to go paperless as it leaps onto the TAP (Transit Access Pass), L.A. County’s new fare payment system. According to blogdowntown.com, starting Sept. 1, EZ pass will be loaded […]

In an effort to reduce the need for paper tickets while also offering passengers an easier method to pay for their journeys, Newport Bus has launched the new Freedom smartcard, according to BBC News. The free smart card will serve as an alternative to paying cash for paper tickets by deducting the cost from the […]

Clipper is sending out thousands of notifications to transit riders that it will be collecting missed payments due to problems with the system, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Nearly 8,000 uncollected transactions dating as far back as 2010 will receive e-mailed notices through the beginning of September alerting that their accounts will be charged […]

Warsaw Transport Authority announced the introduction of the first ticket machines to accept contactless payments on public transport in Warsaw. The contactless-enabled ticket machines, provided by First Data Corporation, came into operation and were most recently put to use when hundreds of thousands of soccer fans visited Warsaw for the “Euro 2012” European Football Championships […]