The fare payment business has changed over the last few years, and the biggest change has come in the form of unifying the systems. The process comes with its benefits and challenges, but cities across the nation are recognizing the importance.
Launching in Tampa, Moovit is an app that helps users plan multimodal trips.
Via Metro STL, which is powered by Via, extends the reach of the region’s Metro Transit system by providing riders with affordable and convenient first-mile/last-mile connections between destinations in St. Louis County.
What similar service obligations and financial challenges can teach transit agencies about new methods for selling fares?
C-Tran, Golden Empire Transit, LA Metro, Milton Transit, RideKC, and UTA are integrating on-demand microtransit into the app.
Gothenburg is Sweden’s second largest city and sits near the coast on the west side of the country south of Norway and north of Denmark. It is a, relatively, recent city and has a 400th anniversary in 2021.
While transit agencies look to increase mobility for its customers, many are exploring relatively new concepts to do so. First Transit’s Tina Morch-Pierre, sr. director, innovation and technology services, and Derek Fretheim, sr. director, national innovation, discuss how mobility-as-a-service, as a concept, is evolving in transit, as well as some of the hurdles they are seeing play out in the market.
We are starting to see a shift within the mobility domain away from the desire for single car ownership. The explanations are many, but in a digitalized, shared, and on-demand society, the requirement of owning your own automobile has diminished in the priorities of one’s lifestyle.
The platform is being developed as an open ecosystem that can be connected to existing apps from joint venture RiVier.
With this unprecedented crisis will come a new way for transit agencies to operate service and do business on a day-to-day basis. So what might that look like?
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