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With sustainability as one of RTA’s guiding principles, this new paperless form of payment is an additional way to optimize transit’s impact on the environment and provide a greater convenience to riders.
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Ventra supports both account-based processing through an agency-issued smart card, as well as open payment which enables customers to “pay as you go” with bank cards they already have or through mobile payment platforms including Apple Pay, Android Pay or Samsung Pay.
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However, after it picks a private vendor to install the new fare payment system, the MTA says the system won't be up and running until at least 2021. Private vendors have until June 23, 2016 to submit their proposals
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Vehicles will be equipped with INIT’s onboard ticket readers/validators to support multiple forms of payment including smart cards. Mobile tickets and EMV credit card payments will be added over time.
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On social media, riders roundly complained about the “Pay your fare, it’s only fair” message, which played stop after stop at a higher volume than other messages played on the trolleys.
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Designed to incorporate leading edge electronic payment technologies to make transit use more convenient for customers, the GlobeSherpa system will be integrated with Vix's market-leading eO account-based fare collection solution to provide DART an efficient and secure fare collection platform.
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The new METRO Q Mobile Ticketing app allows Houston residents and visitors to purchase mobile tickets for METRO bus and METRORail and use them directly from their smartphone.
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MuniMobile, the Bay Area's first systemwide mobile ticketing app, is available for single-ride bus, rail, and cable car tickets. Fares can be purchased in increments of 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day passports.
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Customers who purchase tickets for the Northeast Illinois commuter rail system through the agency’s website now have the ability to split their payments among credit and debit cards, including pre-tax transit benefit debit cards.
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The historic milestone signifies that all municipal transit agencies in L.A. County accept TAP as a universal fare media and passengers can transfer to bus or train from any transit provider.
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