Some 200 University of Alberta, Canada employees who ride Edmonton’s Light Rail Transit between the university’s three campuses, will soon get to pilot a contactless transit card. The employees will be given preloaded, plastic cards that they can tap against readers installed at some of the stops. Transit security will also be equipped with portable […]

The Maryland Transit Administration has a deal in place that will enable users of its smart card to allso be used on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Administration’s system, according to the Baltimore Sun. WMATA users would also be able to use their cards on MTA buses, the Baltimore Mettro and the light rail. Read […]

Fort Lee, NJ-based On Track Innovations, a contactless smart card solutions provider, says it has been selected by E-Kent, an automatic fare collection company in Turkey, to provide transportation payment solutions based on OTI’s Smart Sticker product and Saturn 6000 contactless reader. The system calls for making available alternative distribution channels for E-Kent’s main transportation […]

The NFC Forum has unveiled its “target mark,” what its chairman called a “milestone in the global commercialization of NFC technology.” The new N-Mark, introduced during an NFC Forum Web cast today, is designed to show consumers where they need to touch to activate the NFC interaction. The NFC Forum N-Mark is available to anyone […]

One ticket for getting into the Olympics, for transportation, for identification and even for payment may make its appearance at the 2012 Olympics scheduled for London. Research into a cashless Olympics incorporating ticketing, ID authentication and transport is currently being conducted by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, an independent body that advises Parliament […]

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority installing NXP Semiconductors’ new more secure MIFARE Plus contactless technology for its automatic fare collection infrastructure. LA Metro annually attracts about 480 million boardings in the Greater Los Angeles Area. “Security is a key element of our system, and NXP’s MIFARE Plus has proven to meet all our […]

La Autoridad Regional del Transporte de Chicago, la cual desarrolla un moderno sistema de boletos que le permite a los pasajeros pagar con tarjetas de crédito sin contacto, piensa expandir ese servicio para incluir también teléfonos celulares NFC. “Pienso que es una de las tecnologías más prometedoras que hay ahora”, comenta Joseph Moriarty, analista principal […]

Chicago’s Regional Transportation Authority, which is developing a revamped fare system allowing riders to pay with contactless credit cards, may expand that service to include NFC-compliant phones as well. “I think it’s one of the most promising technologies out there,” commented Joseph Moriarty, the RTA’s principal analyst. “More people carry a cell phone than carry […]

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority could be fast-tracking a new contactless fare card for subways and buses by 2011. The MTA could offer a new MetroCard or partner with a bank or credit card company as it did for a subway pilot that it conducted a couple years ago. If a credit or debit card […]

The University of Maryland in Baltimore, is considering integrating its student ID cards with SmarTrip cards, a contactless stored-value smart card used for payment within the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Under the proposed program, instead of printing new student IDs on regular plain ID cards, the University would use blank SmarTrip cards, encouraging students […]