Gemalto has published the results of a street survey conducted amongst Dubai residents, revealing an overwhelming appetite for using contactless technologies. Dubai’s enthusiasm extends beyond the replacement of cash and encompasses a host of other applications such as public transport access, loyalty schemes and e-tickets for major music and sports events. The vast majority of […]

Cubic Transportation Systems has recognized its Minneapolis/St. Paul customer, Metro Transit, for achieving near record high usage of its Go-To Card contactless smart cards in February 2013. The Go-To Card represented 54.7% of all fares collected during the month, with nearly 3.43 million rides paid for by using Metro Transit’s Go-To Cards, which include the […]

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance announced the availability of the CIPURSE V2 Mobile Guidelines, a set of requirements and use cases for developing and deploying CIPURSE-secured transit fare mobile apps for NFC-enabled smart phones, tablets and other smart devices. Providing everything developers need to implement and use the CIPURSE V2 open security […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the spring 2013 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

SmartDebit, the UK direct debit payment processor, has responded to the recent news that one million bus journeys in London have been paid for using a contactless debit, credit or charge card. According to Transport for London (TfL), up to 10,000 people per day are using their contactless card to pay for a fare in […]

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is meeting to address the growing number of privacy concerns circulating around the Clipper card, the reloadable contactless smart card used for electronic transit fare payment in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to the San Francisco Examiner, the duration for which regional officials can keep personal information obtained by […]

Transport for London (TfL) revealed that NFC contactless payments have accounted for 1 million transactions on the city’s bus lines. A release from TfL’s website estimates that as many as 10,000 people are using the contactless debit, credit or charge cards each day to pay their bus fares. Support for contactless payment cards giving riders […]