Isis, the mobile payments venture by Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile, is not “scaling back” efforts to launch its own payments platform in favor of a simpler mobile wallet service, contrary to a report by The Wall Street Journal. According to Mobile Commerce Daily, Isis will continue as planned to develop its own mobile […]

Xerox’s Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), is moving forward with plans to enter the public transit sector with the hire of Steve Frazzini as vice president of fare payment solutions. A former vice president for Automated Fare Collection and MetroCard Operations for the MTA in New York City, Frazzini has worked for 25 years in public […]

The City of Calgary has selected Telvent to implement a contactless smart card based Electronic Fare Collection (EFC) system for Calgary Transit’s light rail and bus network. Calgary Transit, which services some 94 million passengers per year, has opted for a contactless system in order to provide a “more convenient method to pay for fares,” […]

Students attending the School Without Walls, a small public magnet high school located on the George Washington University campus in Washington, D.C., get to use DC One smart cards to ride the metro to and from school. The school is the first in the district utilizing the contactless fare card. Some say the new system […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the availability of a new interactive PDF viewer allowing subscribers a new way to access our print magazines and content. The spring 2011 issue of re:ID is ready and the interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that […]

Transport for London (TfL) is launching a new limited edition Oyster smart card to commemorate the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29. The new card, provided by ASK, is equipped with a NXP Mifare DESFire chip that allows visitors and residents to tap pay for rides on London’s buses, trams, Tube, […]

Juniper Research has released a new report predicting that the number of people worldwide using their mobile devices as travel tickets on metros, subways and buses will reach 500 million by 2015 – a fivefold increase over last year. Concentrated mainly in Japan and in several European countries, mobile ticketing is expected to “spread widely” […]

The Handheld Group has announced it will supply Netherlands Railways (NS) with more than 10,000 rugged handheld ticketing terminals, 6,000 of which will be the Nautiz eTicket Pro for contactless ticketing. The Nautiz eTicket Pro rugged PDA, designed specifically for payment transactions and validations in the public transportation market, features an integrated smart card reader […]

New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has begun the process of seeking a vendor for its new contactless fare payment system, according to Banktech.com. The MTA has invited members of the fare collection, technology, telecommunications, system integration and payments industries to attend a presentation of its Concept of Operations (ConOps), a document that the […]

Oberthur Technologies has announced the commercial launch of its Cosmo Fly v4 M/Chip Advance for MasterCard. Following Oberthur’s announcement of the development of MasterCard M/Chip Advance in December 2010, the Cosmo Fly has been fully certified and is now commercially available for MasterCard issuers. The new product is designed to provide MasterCard issuers with a […]