Transit App Introduces First-of-Its-Kind Feature Telling Users Where They Can Pay with Open Loop
The Transit trip-planning app has introduced a feature that tells users whether the transit agency they’re looking to ride accepts open-loop payments.
The first-of-its-kind feature kicked off with a list of more than 50 transit authorities, operators and groups globally in cities where the Transit app is present. That includes in North America, Transit’s homebase; as well as Europe and Australia and New Zealand. (See table with list provided to Mobility Payments)
To be sure, the list represents a significant undercount of the transit agencies that accept open loop globally, even among the 800-plus cities where the Transit app operates. But Transit says the list is a good start.
Public Transit Ticket Sales in Transit App Continue to Grow, though Make Up Small Share of Total Fare Revenue
The Transit app has recorded nearly 2.5 million ticketing transactions since it began enabling transit agency customers to buy tickets in its trip-planning app in 2019, the app provider told Mobility Payments. More than 250,000 customers of 65 agencies have purchased tickets in the app during that time, Transit said. Those figures are up from...
Trip-Planning Transit App Expands to Another Software-as-a-Service Ticketing Provider
The trip-planning app provider Transit has added another mobile-ticketing and payments provider as it continues to seek to enable users to plan, book and pay for rides from its app. It already works with at least three other software-as-a-service mobile-ticketing providers.
Transit Agency to Enable Cash Loading, Fare Capping with Mobile Ticketing
Another public transit agency plans to enable customers to load value to their mobile accounts at retail locations and to buy tickets through both a local app and the trip-planning Transit app.
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.
Transit Agency Sells Passes for Bikes and Buses through Trip-Planning App, though Cash Still Reigns
RTC of Southern Nevada, the main transit agency serving Las Vegas and the surrounding region, now enables customers to buy passes for bike share in addition to tickets for buses through the trip-planning Transit app. Although the implementation is relatively small, project backers say Las Vegas is the first U.S. city to launch bike share and transit passes in the same app.
After 10 Months, Sales of Public Transit Tickets in Uber App Still Make Up Small Share of Mobile Ticketing in Denver
(This premium article was originally published in March 2020. © Mobility Payments and Forthwrite Media.) Since last May, when ride-hailing service Uber officially began enabling customers to book and pay for public transit tickets in Denver directly in the Uber app, use of the service remains relatively low, accounting for less than 3% of all...