Brussels’ transport agency, theSociété des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB), has chosen smart card company Gemalto to provide contactless transportation cards to its 400,000 citizens who ride the city’s subway, buses and trams. Deployment for the MOBIB cards, which started in April, will eventually be extended to cover all of Belgium. The MOBIB card is […]

Verayo, a security and authentication solutions provider, announced it has partnered with Bartronics India Limited, one of India’s largest bar code and RFID technology companies, to bring their RFID wares to the Indian market. With the partnership, Bartronics will incorporate Verayo’s Unclonable RFID chip in its tags. Verayo’s RFID chip is based on silicon biometric […]

Zipcars are coming to Chico State University, the first campus in the California State University system to offer the rental car system designed to ease traffic and parking congestion and provide students with an optional method of transportation. The campus was scheduled to receive the first cars this week from the Cambridge, Mass.-based Zipcar, which […]

Zenius Solutions, a Silicon Valley-based NFC software company supporting mobile payments and NFC add-ons, has rolled out demo offerings of its first two products–ZeniusMobilePay, which enables NFC-enabled phones to conduct U.S. and EMV contactless credit card wave-and-pay transactions and ZeniusMobilePOS, which equips NFC-enabled mobile phones to read Contactless credit cards. Both products work with contactless […]

Ulink, the bus service operated by the University of West England and Wessex Connect and originally established for students, introduced this month an Oyster-style card for passengers to make their travels across Bristol easier. Now in its second year, Ulink became the first bus service in Bristol to successfully launch the new smart card system. […]

UK METRO operator Nexus has been awarded about $22 million to upgrade existing ticket machines to a smart card system similar to London’s contactless Oyster card. It’s part of a nearly half billion dollar “All Change” program designed to revamp the 30-year-old rail system. Work should start early next year to upgrade the 225 old […]

The Compass card, the contactless fare card launched in May by the San Diego Association of Governments, has so far not lived up to expectations. Software bugs have delayed a full rollout of the card by San Diego County’s largest transit operator. The Metropolitan Transit System, which carries 290,000 riders daily on its buses and […]

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, which now is seeking about $100 million from a $1.5 billion federal grant program for national and regional transportation projects, has postponed for the fourth time its deadline for receiving proposals for a contactless fare card system. It’s newest deadline is Sept. 30, more than six months after its original […]

UK’s Department of Transport is considering implementing a nationwide Oyster-style smart card ticketing system that could see the end of paper tickets. Mobile phones and bank cards could also be included in the proposed system. The department this week released a consultation document seeking comments on the development of its future smart ticketing strategy for […]

The Chicago Transit Authority is exploring dropping its fare cards and instead going with contactless credit, debit and prepaid cards for payments on the system. The agency will issue a request for proposals in late August. Switching systems would save the CTA money because it wouldn’t have to issue fare media and manage the fare […]