The Southeaster Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has voted to award a contract of up to $129.5 million to ACS Transport Solutions Group for the installation of a new contactless open fare system. According to SEPTA, the new system will replace current tokens, paper tickets and magnetic stripe passes with bank cards, smart ID’s, NFC-enabled phones […]

The Los Angeles World Airports, which oversees airport operations for the city of Los Angeles, has awarded a contract modification to Unisys to upgrade its access control and alarm monitoring system that is used to identify the 45,000 airport employees, contractors, police and others who work at the organization’s three airports. Under the modification, potentially […]

The Chicago Transit Authority is moving ahead with an open-fare transit system after the Chicago Transit Board approved an agreement to implement the new system from Cubic Transportation Systems for $454 million. The board approved a contract to convert the CTA’s proprietary-fare system to an open fare system that will use contactless cards that use […]

The Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council has introduced a series of educational resources on open payments solutions in public transit systems, including a white paper, Web resources and LinkedIn group for industry professionals. “Open transit payments are very convenient for travelers, because they do not need separate fare media to access transit services,” said Randy […]

Cubic Transportation Systems has announced that it will provide Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund (NVV), a public transit authority in the German state of Hessen, with a mobile phone-based service for rail and bus ticketing. According to Cubic, the mobile ticketing solution will integrate with the existing NVV journey planner app so that passengers can receive travel updates […]

TagMaster was selected by Bombardier Transportation to provide TagMaster’s advanced onboard RFID solution as part for a new monorail mass transits system in Sao Paulo, Brazil. TagMaster HD Readers will be mounted onboard the BOMBARDIER INNOVIA Monorail 300 trains and provide both primary train location information and accurate positioning information to the BOMBARDIER CITYFLO 650 […]

Infineon Technologies has announced the availability of world’s first security chip solutions compliant to the open standard CIPURSE for public transport applications. Infineon’s CIPURSE security chip and NFC Secure Element can now be used by public transport companies to issue interoperable contactless tickets, cards and mobile applications for fare payments. Infineon says these will be […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance has teamed up with test tools provider Solatis to begin the first phase of its certification program for the CIPURSE open security standard. According to the alliance, this is the first step in providing transit operators with certification testing services that will ensure the compliance of contactless […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance, an international association chartered to define a new open standard for secure transit fare collection solutions, has announced the admission of Samsung Electronics as a full member. As part of the OSPT Alliance, Samsung will pursue the development of commercialized semiconductor products for building next-generation transit fare […]

CPI Card Gro­­up has selected Bell ID’s Trusted Service Manager (TSM) software solutions to enable the provisioning and management NFC applications for its customers across North America. Using Bell ID’s solutions, CPI will be able to assume the role of TSM and provide the personalization of NFC secure elements and the secure provisioning of applicati­­ons […]