Aeroexpress, operator of air rail link services in Moscow, Russia, has partnered with multinational financial services provider Visa to launch new a card processing system using Visa payWave contactless payment technology. Now, thanks to the payWave cards, tickets are one-touch-accessible at all Aeroexpress offices and ticket vending machines. The contactless-enabled Visa payWave offers card holders […]

The Moscow Department of Transport has selected NXP’s MIFARE Plus to serve in its new “TROIKA” smart card project. The new multi-modal transport card will integrate metro, urban railway, tam and bus ticketing into a single MIFARE-based solution; with suburban trains, parking, road tolling and other city services to be added in the near future. […]

Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the London Underground, Cubic Transportation Systems was recently among the small group of Transport for London (TfL) partners invited to meet Her Majesty The Queen. During the March 20 visit, Her Majesty visited Baker Street Underground Station accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh and Her Royal Highness […]

Radio Prague reports that this week, police in Prague indicted 11 members of the city council, including Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda, over charges that they engaged in infringement of competition regulations and breach of trust with regards to the city’s Opencard smart card system. Prague’s Opencard system can be used throughout the city for travel, libraries […]

German technology company Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has won a contract from the government of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China to produce its new multifunction contactless smart ID cards. G&D will be the primary contractor on this project and will have responsibility for the project’s management, smart card application […]

ABI Research forecasts 2.1 billion contactless credentials – a combination of smart cards and limited use RFID solutions – will ship into the transportation and ticketing market in 2018, just more than double that achieved in 2012. In 2012, MiFare solutions accounted for more than 80% of all contactless ticketing credentials deployed. While ABI Research […]

Infineon, a manufacturer of semiconductor solutions for payment applications, introduced its Coil on Module chip package to support global distribution of dual interface bank and credit cards. The new Infineon chip package combines the security chip and antenna using a radio frequency (RF) link – rather than the common mechanical-electrical connection – which improves the […]