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Industry group explores branded contactless payment acceptance for transit industry

Thursday, August 16, 2007

With the emergence of contactless cards and a couple of transit trials testing the use of this new payment medium in lieu of transit passes, the Smart Card Alliance’s Transportation Council released a white paper in October, 2006, exploring this new payment method.

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