Kelowna in British Columbia, Canada is planning to outfit its SkyTrains and city buses with TransLink’s smart card technology in 2013, according to kelowna.com. The Kelowna Transit Authority will issue a request for qualifications on the project this month, with a request for proposals to follow in spring 2010. The total cost of the project […]

The Infocommunication Union (ICU) has announced that it will establish an NFC test zone at select railway stations in Russia by spring 2010. The Infocommunication Union is a non-profit organization whose board members include representatives of the four leading mobile operators in Russia: VympelCom, MegaFon, MTS, Moskovskaya Sotovaya Svyaz. ICU has been working up to […]

Avery Dennison announced that its RFID inlays have successfully passed specifications and system tests to meet performance requirements for the tagging of luggage and bags at airports, as established by the International Air Transport Association. Avery Dennsion, through its partnership with Motorola and Print-O-Tape, will begin by supplying Hong Kong International Airport with AD-833 inlays […]

The British Government has launched a £20 million campaign that will bring contactless ticketing for public transportation to nine major urban areas, according to the Regen.net. Inspired by the success of the Oyster card in London, Transport Secretary Lord Adonis announced today that £20 million in government funding will be divided evenly among England’s nine […]

The Maryland Transit Authority (MTA) is pushing its smart card deployment back to next fall, according to ABC News. The MTA has considered implementing a fare collection system based on smart card technology since 2001, yet the deployment has been delayed several times: first to summer 2008, then to October of this year, this winter, […]

Beginning February 2010, the city of Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada is launching a $2.9 million initiative to install contactless smart card technology on its entire bus fleet, according to The Star Phoenix. Under the new system, riders will exclusively use smart cards called Go-Passes to pay for bus fare. As of Jan. 20, paper money […]

Cubic Transportation Systems India, subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, is launching a five-month trial of its smart card-based fare collection technology aboard buses in Delhi. Cubic began the smart card pilot in November as part of the Delhi Integrated Multi Modal Transit System (DIMTS), a joint initiative of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi […]

PARX France, subsidiary of On Track Innovations (OTI), is expanding its EasyPark contactless parking solution to Montpellier, the 8th largest city in France with more than 500,000 residents in the city’s metropolitan area. EasyPark (known as Piaf 2 in France) is OTI’s in-vehicle contactless electronic parking meter. To activate Piaf 2, the driver turns on […]

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) each piece of lost luggage costs between $90 and $100 in direct costs to airlines and airports. In an effort to eliminate these costs, ODIN technologies has developed a scientific RFID study for airline baggage tracking, named the RFID Baggage Tag Benchmark. The test results incorporated tag […]

Sagem Sécurité’s SmartGate, an automated border control system using facial recognition, is now available at Auckland International Airport in New Zealand. Accessible to New Zealand and Australian e-passport holders, SmartGate identifies travelers in real time using facial recognition from the photo stored in the chip of the ePassport, allowing for quicker processing of international travelers. […]