What is Fare Payments-as-a-Service?
- Date: 06/15/2020
Fare Payments as a Service (FPaaS) is a new and better way of delivering ticketing systems to transport agencies, operators…
The rise of "contactless ticketing" burst onto the scene a few years ago with the roll out of Transport for London’s (TfL) contactless solution, and as a regular user of the system I have to say it works very well, with systems like this being rolled out around the world.
The term "contactless ticketing" has been adopted to refer to the use of contactless bank cards to tap and ride on public transport systems. In this blog post, we'll be focusing on the use of contactless bank cards and these same cards emulated through Apple Pay and Google Pay on mobile for use as a means to simply tap and travel on public transport.
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