The system is being trialled as a first step in bringing safe contactless payments to passengers in the Spanish city as well as attracting locals and visitors back to public transport.
The contactless and Covid-safe app offers an upgrade to current ticketing options by enabling Outrider passengers to purchase and display tickets directly on their smartphones.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Transit Innovation Partnership have launched the programme that helps riders use their smartphones to find bus stops and learn of arrival times.
Interactive Citypost smart digital kiosks at Dallas Area Rapid Transit bus and light rail stations have been upgraded to be contactless to help address Covid-19 concerns.
Visa’s transit programme is aimed at companies whose technology products and capabilities can help agencies and riders realise the benefits of tapping to ride with a contactless card or digital wallet.
Moovit’s journey planner app combines official information from Adelaide Metro as well as crowdsourced information to calculate the best route for each journey.
The Viikki-Malmi line will be a new public transport trunk connection from the city centre to Kumpula, Viikki, Latokartano and the Malmi Airport area, and on to Malmi or Jakomäki.
Solution allows transit providers to get a view of the entire transit corridor at once and coordinate trip times that would benefit passengers travelling through the corridor.
The goal of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Transit Tech Lab accelerator programme is to establish the city as the centre of innovation for mobility and public transit.
Go North West is working with ITO World to integrate the information which will be used by those using its Manchester service to make more informed travel decisions.
Mobility operator Keolis Downer has added the rail service to the Australian city’s multi-modal transport network alongside its bus and ferry operations
Abellio London has seen nearly a 30 per cent reduction in avoidable collisions using Mobileye’s safety technology and a 60 per cent reduction in injuries from such collisions
FIWARE CEO Ulrich Ahle speaks to Graeme Neill about how the Smart Cities for Germany programme is helping the country’s poor track record on digitising services and how the battle for public opinion on open-source has been won.
