Regulators Question Backers of Denmark’s High-Profile National Mobile-Ticketing App over Data-Protection Concerns
Denmark’s high-profile project to replace its much-used closed-loop fare card with a nationwide mobile-ticketing app has hit another snag–an investigation by the country’s data protection agency.
National transport-ticketing company Rejsekort & Rejseplan, or RKRP, said it is fully cooperating with the investigation into its app by the Danish Data Protection Authority. RKRP customer director Jens Willars told Mobility Payments
Melbourne Project Believed to be Behind Schedule; Officials Keep Mum about Any Problems
State transport officials in Melbourne are not voicing any concerns publicly, but behind the scenes, they are believed to be growing increasingly impatient with the apparent slow progress their main vendor, Conduent Transportation, is making on implementing a new ticketing system for Australia’s No. 2 city, sources told Mobility Payments.
Officials announced the award of a 15-year-AU$1.7 billion (US$1.1 billion) contract to Conduent in May 2023.
Cubic Faces Tight Deadline to Implement Open-Loop Payments in Los Angeles
With approval of a $66.4 million contract upgrade by the LA Metro board, Cubic Transportation Systems now faces a tight deadline to implement open-loop payments for Metro and 26 smaller transit agencies serving Los Angeles County.
The contract approval late last week was expected, but unlike recent decisions by transit boards in Minneapolis, Boston and New York–which largely rubber-stamped
Updated: Netherlands Stands by Plan to Retire Much-Used Closed-Loop Card by End of 2025
Dutch transport officials are still on track to fully retire the country’s nationwide closed-loop card program, OV-chipkaart, by the end of next year, the program director for the year-old open-loop OVpay system told Mobility Payments.
OVpay, the first major nationwide open-loop system globally, will likely only account for 25% to 30% of
Update: Tip Sheet: Philadelphia Agency Could Reveal New Fare-System Vendor in July
The proposed contract for the new Key 2.0 fare system in Philadelphia goes to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority board in July for approval, according to a SEPTA official, who is not revealing whether the agency has chosen a vendor yet.
As Mobility Payments has reported in recent months, a shortlist of two vendors, Cubic Transportation Systems and
MTA Official Asks Payments Networks for Lower Fees to Accept Open Loop with New Transit Interchange Rate
New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority fare official Amy Linden today called on U.S. payments networks to set a uniform transit interchange rate that reduces high fixed fees most agencies must pay to accept open-loop payments.
“(It’s) something we've always asked for, getting a transit rate,” she said, speaking at the Transport Ticketing North America conference in Chicago. “Government, higher education, lodging industry all
Cubic Hires Former Vix Chief as Head of Business Development, Replacing ‘Turnaround Expert’ in Post
Cubic Transportation Systems has replaced its head of business development–and turnaround expert–Rich Varos with fare-industry veteran and former head of Vix Technology David Maitland, Mobility Payments has learned.
The move, coming after Varos was in the job only little more than seven months, was unexpected. Few inside Cubic, even members of Varos’ team, are believed to have known about planned changes.
Analysis: Boston Project Finally to Get Rolling; What had Gone Wrong?
When Phil Eng arrived in Boston to take over as general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in April 2023, he assumed control of a transit system beset with crumbling infrastructure, labor shortages, budget shortfalls and safety problems.
He also inherited a fare-system project that had seen years of delays and a budget that had ballooned to nearly a billion dollars.
Denmark Issues Tender Request for Card Validators for Customers Who Will Not Use Nationwide Mobile-Ticketing App
Danish transport officials this week issued a tender request for vendors to supply validators to accept prepaid closed-loop cards and open-loop payments from customers who cannot or will not use the country’s nationwide mobile-ticketing apps.
The tender request, issued Tuesday, would enable national transport-ticketing company Rejsekort &
Tip Sheet: Sydney Transport Authority to Issue Much-Anticipated RFP for Opal Next Generation by July
Transport for New South Wales this week issued an advance notice of its plans to release its long-awaited request for proposal for its Opal Next Generation fare project. The Sydney authority, a major backer of open-loop payments, said Tuesday that it plans to issue the RFP within two months.
The authority confirmed its tender request will nclude two major parts, an “ABT Solution” and a vehicle-tracking “Bus Solution, which Mobility Payments reported last month was likely.