Adelaide, Australia has announced plans to implement a smart card transit system by 2013, according to adelaidenow.com.au. Transport Minister Patrick Conlon made the announcement today, putting the $30 million project in the hands of ATLAS, which has installed similar systems in Houston and Montreal. With the new system, passengers can add money to smart cards […]

eAccess LLC, a subsidiary of Cubic Corp., announced that it has produced several thousand Super Bowl Commemorative EASY Cards for Miami-Dade Transit. The NFL-sanctioned commemorative cards went on sale Feb. 1 and are being sold while supplies last from now until game day on Feb. 7. The commemorative cards, which sport the official NFL and […]

The Welsh Assembly has called for reconsideration of a smart card transit system that would connect the towns and cities of Wales, according to squidcard.com. The proposed ULTtra (Urban Light Transport) project calls for a contactless smart card system to grant passengers access to driverless pods that run on a track similar to that of […]

Some agencies holding out but vast majority are online By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, AVISIAN Publications TransLink appears poised to finally live up to the scenario first imagined 16-years ago of providing San Francisco Bay transit riders one card that would be good on all 24 agencies serving the area. The one card is now […]

There are approximately 5,000 buses traversing along the Edsa highway, including approximately 1,500 illegal operators – all contributing to traffic congestion and air pollution, reports The Inquirer Network. In order to comply with environmental protocols set by the United Nations, the Metro Manila Development Authority will install RFID technology to cut carbon emissions, at the […]

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has announced that Hong Kong and Shenzhen locals could be using smart cards to travel and shop by next year, according to The Standard. The two cities are looking into a two-in one smart card that combines the Octopus card (Hong Kong’s contactless payment card) and its sister card, […]

Bombardier Transportation has selected TagMaster for several of its metro projects in Asia, by providing its RFID solutions system. One project, including more than a hundred heavy-duty readers and eight hundred heavy-duty tags, will equip metro transports with RFID readers to provide accurate location and track alignment. Utilizing TagMaster’s positioning software, the system will automatically […]

NXP Semiconductors announced that its MIFARE Plus contactless smart card CPU IC (MF1PLUSx0y1) has been awarded Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification by the German Federal Office for Information Security. NXP has also announced the successful performance of MIFARE Plus in independent security reviews conducted by cryptography experts from the Ruhr-Universität in Germany and the Katholieke […]

The Federal Bicycle Commuter Act, signed into law on Oct. 3, 2008, encourages employers to reward its employees who travel to work by bike, rewarding them with a tax free prize of up $20. To further encourage and promote the Act, The Dero Bike Rack Company has developed a system which enables employers and employees […]

Smart card manufacturers Giesecke & Devrient and Oberthur Technologies S.A., and chip suppliers Infineon Technologies AG and INSIDE Contactless S.A. announced they have launched an industry initiative to provide a new security solution for next-generation smart card-based public transport applications. The solution will build on an open standard now being implemented by the four partner […]