Open Payments – A Big Hit in the Big Apple
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has taken a giant leap forward in modernizing the way New Yorkers and visitors pay for their daily commutes with the introduction of OMNY (One Metro New...
View ArticleTransport Ticketing Global – another fantastic year!
Blog summarising the TTG event in London and some of the topics covered around fare collection The post Transport Ticketing Global – another fantastic year! first appeared on Consult Hyperion.
View ArticleABT – the opportunities of transitioning
Osmodal Group’s Mick Spiers and Consult Hyperion’s Lawrence Sutton consider the benefits of Card-Based to Account Based ticketing (ABT) and determine factors to consider with transition The post ABT –...
View ArticleWhy I Hate Account-Based Ticketing
I hate Account-Based Ticketing. Well, not the technology. I just hate the name. With Account-Based Ticketing, or ABT, riders simply tap a contactless card or bar code or some other form factor at a...
View ArticleThe truth about Open Payments
The Truth about Open Payments Towards the end of last year, Mobility Payments held a spirited webinar to debate the pros and cons of Open-Loop Payments in transit, with panelists from Europe, Australia...
View ArticleA decade of tapping on TfL buses
Yesterday marked the 10 year anniversary of Contactless on TfL buses; a new generation of fare collection was born that delivered convenience beyond anything that had gone before for customers and much...
View ArticleNew Features Greet Riders As They Return to Transit
Everyone seems to think that MaaS (Mobility-as-a-Service) is a brand-new business model, when in fact, Transit Agencies have been providing mobility as a service for years, just without the hyphens....
View ArticleWill 2022 start to drive the future of Interoperability and Inclusion?
Our overriding theme of this year’s Live5 is interoperability which will lead to inclusion. Whether this is in payments or transit, identity or as a generalised trend what we’re seeing is a collapsing...
View ArticleHow the past (ticketing technology) can still be relevant in the future.
Last week, I attended the excellent Transport Ticketing Digital Summit which focused on advances in fare collection and Mobility as a Service (MaaS). In a conference looking at the future of fare...
View ArticleUltra wide band – the 2nd coming?
Every year Consult Hyperion publishes our Live 5. We try to shine a lens on the year ahead and think about what will be impacting our clients. The themes for 2021 are: Contact free Integrated access...
View ArticleContact-Free: the backdrop to Payments, Ticketing & Identity in 2021
It’s that time of year again: where’s it’s traditional to take stock and look to the future. At Consult Hyperion, we do that through our ‘Live 5’ process; where we look at major trends in business,...
View ArticleContact-free public transport (Part 3)
This is the third of three blogs about technologies to support contact-free use of public transport. The radio again – I hear that the Transport Minister for England had just reported that there have...
View ArticleContact-free public transport (Part 2)
This is the second of three blogs about technologies to support contact-free use of public transport. Public transport operators have been making great efforts to make public transport safe during the...
View ArticleContact-free public transport (Part 1)
This is the first of three blogs about technologies to support contact-free use of public transport. I heard on the radio that, despite ministers encouraging people in England back to work in their...
View ArticleLockdown for transit
A couple of weeks ago I was delighted to host one of our weekly COVID-19 webinars. We discussed the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on public transport and how our technologies are likely to be...
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