More cities letting public transit travellers pay with smartphone


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 24 Oct 2019

No more looking for coins: Fare tech company Cubic Corp has installed open-payment transit fare collection technology in a few cities, such as London, allowing users to pay via smartphone. — dpa

Cubic Corp, which makes fare collection technology for some of the world's largest public transit agencies, is working with Google to make it easier for riders in cities around the world to use their Android smartphones to pay for fares.

Cubic is collaborating with Google to add transit cards to the Google Pay platform, allowing unbanked riders, youth and others without credit or debit cards to tap their smartphones at the gate to pay for public transit.

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