Cubic Transportation Systems has been awarded a $15 million contract to design, deliver and provide services for a new smart card ticketing and revenue management system for the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA). The system which will be interoperable with Miami-Dade County’s new EASY CARD system. Tri-Rail, the commuter rail service connecting Palm Beach […]

Denver has started implementing solar-powered “Smart Meters” that accept contactless payment, according to the Denver Post. Installations began in February and will continue through May. Denver will install approximately 4,500 of the new meters, comprising 85% of the city’s total. Along with prepaid smart cards, the new meters will accept credit cards, debit cards and […]

Calgary has announced plans to implement a smart card payment system for public transportation by 2012, according to the Calgary Herald. Senior transit planner Neil McKendrick announced that the new system will be modeled after the popular Oyster Card scheme in London. Later this year Calgary will begin the search for companies to begin work […]

Students and faculty at American University are in the process of piloting student ID cards that are compatible with the Washington DC’s Metro SmarTrip technology, reports the GW Hatchet. At the beginning of the year, twenty student IDs were produced that integrate with SmarTrip, a tap-and-enter technology that allows riders to enter Metro stations. The […]

North East Time Recorders, in a partnership with fellow UK-based time and attendance tracker Computime Systems, has developed and delivered a new biometric time and attendance tracking solution designed for use by trucking companies to better track drivers’ bonus, overtime and holiday hours, according to a Transport News article. The system requires a swipe of […]

The French Association of Mobile Contactless Technology (AFSCM) recently accredited Trusted Lab security services to conduct validation of the NFC transport applications for Veolia. AFSCM, responsible for accrediting all mobile applications, is made up of French mobile operators such as Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and NRJ Mobile. AFSCM chose Trusted Labs to check and ensure […]

Gemalto announced the development of a new transport solution enabling commuters to use their mobile phones as e-tickets in MIFARE DESFire infrastructures. DESFire is an automatic fare collection technology which provides 3DES (Triple Data Encryption Standard) and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) cryptographic algorithms. To date, it has been deployed in 40 cities across the world. […]

CONNECTHINGS announced the first public demonstration of the Wave-Me NFC services platform will take place at the upcoming GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain Feb. 15-18. The Wave-Me NFC services platform, the first product developed out of the partnership between CONNECTHINGS and INSIDE Contactless, is built upon CONNECTHINGS’ AdTag server and is designed to […]

Contactless smart card manufacturer ASK and IDECO, its South Africa partner, announced that they have been selected by the Bombela Operating Company as one of the suppliers to the Gautrain project – a contactless ticketing system for passengers traveling between Johannesburg, Tshwane and OR Tambo International Airport. ASK will provide the contactless smart cards of […]

Dates: December 7 – 9, 2010 Location: Paris, France Venue: Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center URL: http://www.cartes.com Description: This is the event where decisions are taken on the future directions and on major trends in smartcard and contactless technologies (transactions, telecoms, services, transport). CARTES: The world leading show for banking technologies and e-transactions, with mobile payment […]