Exclusive: Share of Contactless Rides Paid for with Apple Pay and other Pays Wallets in Manchester More than Doubles in Two Years
Transport for Greater Manchester in the UK is the latest transit agency seeing substantial growth of contactless open-loop fare payments from NFC mobile wallets–with the percentage of its contactless tram trips paid for with Apple Pay, Google Pay and other Pays services more than doubling over the past two years, Mobility Payments has learned.
UK Tram Riders Take to Tapping with NFC phones to Pay for Fares, According to Early Results
Transport for Greater Manchester, which last month launched open-loop payments on its large Metrolink tram network, said Thursday that contactless credit and debit cards and NFC wallets accounted for a combined 170,000 rides during the first four weeks of the service.
In-Depth: 5 Years After Transport for London Launched Contactless Across Transit Network, Open Loop in UK Remains Uneven
Five years ago next month (September 2019), Transport for London introduced open-loop contactless payments across its transit network, including metro, trams and commuter rail, following an earlier launch on buses. The service now accounts for more than half of all pay-as-you-go journeys and has become a global showcase for the technology.
Contactless Payments of Fares Gets Slow Start in Miami, According to Figures
(This premium article was originally published Jan. 9, 2020, in Mobility Payments’ sister publication NFC Times.) Take-up of open-loop contactless payment of fares in Miami-Dade County, Fla., has been slow so far, more than four months after transit officials launched the service on their small light rail network, according to figures provided to NFC Times. ...