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 […]

Visa has announced that 43 Toronto Parking Authority (TPA) Green Parking lots have adopted Visa payWave contactless payments. The new system enables drivers to pay for parking by simply passing their payWave card near the contactless terminal to ‘check in’ to the parking lot, and once again when exiting to complete the transaction. Once the […]

FIST Enterprises, a developer of biometric technology solutions, has commissioned the design and build of a biometric motorcycle from Paul Jr. Designs. In addition to commissioning the FIST Chopper, its design and creation will be featured on the reality show American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior on the Discovery Channel. The hallmark of the design of […]

The youth-oriented Australian travel agency – Student Flights – has selected Multicard to provide identity management services for the verification and issuance of International Student Exchange student ID cards. Student Flights, a division of Brisbane-based Flight Centre Limited, has 50 stores across Australia all of which are authorized issuing agents for the internationally recognized International […]

Public transport passengers in Halton, England will soon be able to use contactless transit cards on buses, trains and ferries, according to Runcorn & Widness Weekly News. Slated for debut in October, the new Oyster-style passes will be distributed by Merseytravel to those renewing their season tickets. In addition to transport ticketing, Merseytravel plans for […]

Multicard has announced it will provide the Municipality of Enschede, The Netherlands with a solution to manage the community’s free bus transport service for older residents. Multicard’s solution encompasses participant enrollment, the issuance of special passes for the service, management of the database of participants, and the design and management of a Web portal that […]