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ArticlesJuly 14, 2025

Transit Agencies Focus on Delivering Seamless Digital Ticketing Experiences

HID industry report reveals the rider expectations and top trends that are reshaping ticketing hardware.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseSeptember 7, 2022

Ore.'s SAMTD Selects Umo for Account-Based Ticketing

The Umo mobility platform will enable transit users to manage their accounts using a simple self-service web portal, or the Umo App, and reload their accounts with fare products, passes, or stored value.

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Newsby StaffJuly 31, 2019

N.C.'s PART moving to digital payment methods

PART plans to transition all passengers to TouchPass by the end of September 2019 and will stop selling magstripe paper passes on August 5.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 17, 2019

OurBus partners to deliver seamless ticket authentication using sound

Chirp sends and receives data via sound, using nothing but a device's existing speaker and microphone.

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NewsSeptember 10, 2018

Calif.'s MST Wraps its First Five-Year Plan with the Monterey Jazz Festival

In celebration of the festival's recent 60th Anniversary, MST revamped the exhibits to showcase a new generation of performers from the most recent festivals.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 24, 2018

World’s largest subway system goes cashless, adopts QR code

On average, as many as 10 million people, more than Hong Kong’s population, take the Shanghai subway.

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Newsby StaffNovember 22, 2016

App offers riders free transit tickets for watching ads on their smartphones

The app’s creators estimated they’d get roughly 1,000 downloads by the end of the year in their pilot city of Dusseldorf, Germany, however, after just one month, they exceeded 20,000 users.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 18, 2014

INIT, Bytemark equip CapMetro with mobile ticketing

The mobile tickets incorporate a QR Code which can be read by INIT’s PROXmobil2 readers installed on the new MetroRapid BRT buses.

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Newsby StaffApril 5, 2012

Metro-North Railroad adds QR codes

The introduction for train schedules and status information is just the latest in a long series of improvements in how the railroad communicates with its customers.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 16, 2012

Kansas transit plans tech upgrade

The Topeka Metropolitan Transit Authority is considering upgrading its system to include technological features, such as bus tracking, QR codes, automatic passenger counters, security codes and ticket vending machines, at a cost of approximately $2.6 million to $3.6 million.

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