The Chicago Transit Authority is planning to pilot an array of credit card acceptance technologies on city buses, including contactless payment, according to cardratings.com. The CTA is planning the switch in order to save time and tighten up efficiency. Research shows that a typical cash transaction takes 25 seconds, as opposed to a credit card […]

Collis has been called in by Trans Link Systems (TLS) to provide consulting for OV-chipkaart, the Netherland’s contactless smart card system for public transport. To help TLS implement the system, Collis is managing and expanding the SDOA specifications, providing support to improve business critical processes within their central back-office, developing and delivering tools to test […]

Charleston, S.C. has completed a contactless overhaul of all 1,840 of the city’s parking meters, according to charleston.thedigital.com. Instead of traditional coin fed machines, the new meters come equipped with smart card readers that accept quick and easy cashless payment. Citizens use special contactless parking passes that essentially function like debit cards. Users can load […]

Ingenico and Bank Asya are partnering to deploy contactless payment terminals in taxi cabs at the Sabiha Gökçen Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. For the upcoming pilot, Bank Aysa will supply 114 taxi cabs with Ingenico’s EFT930 GPRS Mobile Terminals, allowing customers to pay for fares with contactless credit or debit cards, as well as traditional […]

Dubai’s Simage Technologies has unveiled its new contactless terminal, a multi-function device designed for use in financial services, the public sector, transportation and mobile communications. The compact, portable contactless terminal features a touchpad screen, printer and multi-biometrics support for user authentication, and supports ISO 14443 Type A/B standards as well as the ISO 21481 standard […]

The City Council of San Antonio has approved an RFID-enabled bike sharing, rental and tour program, according to a local news report. B-Cycle, who also supplied a similar system in Denver, will supply the system that consists of locking bike racks and a kiosk similar to an ATM, which enables users to purchase a short-term […]

Cubic Transportation Systems, a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, has begun installing Clipper card reader technology on fare boxes, gates and ticketing machines in the San Francisco Bay Area transportation network. Clipper cards, which were officially launched on June 16, allow Bay Area riders to pay for any type of public transportation, including buses, trains and […]

Singapore-based Cassis International says they are in talks with UAE telcom provider Du to give Dubai citizens NFC functionality in their mobile phones, according to itp.net. This means that passengers on the Dubai Metro could be able to pay at the turnstile using only their NFC-enabled mobile phones. Chua Thian Yee, CEO of Cassis International, […]

NXP Semiconductors announced that its contactless microcontroller IC, MIFARE Plus, has been adopted by the Turkish highway card-based automated toll program, Kartlı Geçiş Sistemi (KGS). This rollout, implemented by the Turkish system integrator Aselsan, will see NXP supplying over two million MIFARE Plus chips for the program annually. According to NXP, MIFARE Plus enables system […]

ASEC, subsidiary of On Track Innovations, and SIX Pay have begun testing new contactless ticket vending machines in Warsaw’s metro system. The ticket machines, which are located both in the subway stations and in surrounding urban areas, will accept MasterCard PayPass credit and debit cards. Sebastian Krzyk, chief of the Acceptance Network Department of the […]