Trip-Planning App Transit Touts Ticketing Sales, though Results Vary by Agency
The trip-planning Transit app announced that it has handled more than 1 million fare transactions since April 2019, when it started enabling ticketing and payments through its app. Although ticketing through third-party apps still make up a small percentage of fare payments for agencies, Transit says the transactions are growing rapidly.
Smaller Slovakian Bus Agencies Support Virtual Cards in Google Pay
Two mid-tier bus operators in Slovakia are among the latest to enable their customers to tap virtual closed-loop transit cards in Google Pay to pay fares, using a provisioning service from NXP Semiconductors.
Case Study: BONNsmart Project Seeks to Introduce Open-Loop Payments to Cash-Loving Germany
SWB Bus and Bahn, the transit agency serving the city of Bonn, is the first such operator in Germany to accept contactless EMV payments.
Moovit Moves Forward to Enable Ticketing and Payments in App with More Transit Agencies
Large trip-planning app provider Moovit has enabled customers of more than 50 mostly small transit agencies in the U.S. to buy mobile tickets it its app, with more agencies to come, the company confirmed to Mobility Payments.
Cubic: Recent MaaS Company Failures among Signs Pointing to Need for ‘MaaS 2.0’
There is little disputing the fact that mobility as a service has not yet lived up to its hype. And the industry’s largest automated fare collection system provider, Cubic Transportation Systems, said it believes that going forward, public transit services need to form the backbone of MaaS platforms, along with more demand-responsive transport.
Regional Transit Group Enables Cash Loading in Apps
Ohio-based NEORide consortium, a regional transit group that among other things, handles mobile-ticketing fare collection for 13 transit agencies in the U.S. states of Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan, is seeking to reduce cash from its members buses. It’s the latest agency or group to do so.
Fare System Supplier: Check-in/Be-out Systems Have Advantages Some Transit Agencies Looking for
The city of Hamburg, Germany, will launch a Bluetooth Low Energy-based “check in, be out” fare collection system on its buses and trains later this year.
State of California Seeks to Change Way Transit Agencies Procure Fare Systems
As the California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans, sees it, the state’s more than 300 local transit agencies offer a fragmented and inefficient mix of fare collection systems–a fact it says discourages many potential riders among the state’s nearly 40 million residents from taking public transit.
Calypso Backers Seek to Expand Mobile Ticketing on Android Phones
The recent move by CTS, the transit agency serving the French city of Strasbourg, to make its NFC mobile-ticketing service available to users of nearly all Android phones, could signal greater use of Google’s host-card emulation technology by supporters of Calypso, one of the world’s major technologies for closed-loop fare cards.
Google Launches Ticketing in Maps after Delays; but Search Giant Says It has No Plans to Build MaaS App
Google has finally enabled users to initiate purchases of public transit tickets from its Maps app, following delays. Meanwhile, rival trip-planning app providers Moovit and Transit have been quietly moving forward with signing up most of the same small U.S. transit agencies to sell tickets in their apps.