Dutch public transport riders tapped with their debit cards for a growing number of transactions this spring, and ticketing officials kept the March 2027 stop date to finally retire the country’s 20-year-old closed-loop OV-chip card, Mobility Payments has learned.
Open-loop payments, while failing to increase in May of this year, did substantially grow from March through April, as well as overall for the three-month period ending in May (see chart and table on this page).