Aktobe wanted to tackle many challenges at once in order to improve the resident and visitor experience.
- Moving away from cash-based ticketing
- Adopting a new mindset
- Changing from closed-loop to open-loop
As part of its drive toward digital transformation and smart city programmes, Bishkek embarked on an innovative project to move away from the use of cash.
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‘Tullave’, the card provided by Recaudo Bogota in a closed-loop card system, posed some challenges: costly usage, outdated infrastructure, limited choice of payment methods and low speed of service.
Switching to O-CITY's complete open-loop payment system enabled customers to pay using the payment instrument of their choice.
The Ministry of Transport decided to engage in an ambitious digital transformation programme to automate public transport fare collection.
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Making payments across Kenya 100% digital and cashless and removing the need for print tickets were the key objectives of this project.
Kenya on it's way to contactless payments. Learn all about the journey by downloading the case study.
Dr Newraj Burton, Business Development Manager Africa, BPC participated in the interview on The PayTech Show with host Ali Paterson and dicussed how fintech is helping busses to keep moving during the pandemic taking the Kenya Nairobi example of O-CITY.
Open loop payments, data analysis and AI will transform public transport into sustainable transport
Nearly 10 years ago, the world’s biggest multilateral development banks pledged over 175 billion dollars to fund sustainable transportation systems over the next 10 years. Ten years later, today, ‘sustainable’ stands for much more than a cleaner and safer transport system targeting congestion, reduction of exhaust fumes and cutting down on the economic loss of hours lost in transport.
Deciding whether to pay with cash or card is becoming an increasingly common question when paying for parking spaces, public transport rides, museum access or medium-value store purchases. A seemingly simple question which in reality hides more more from the subconscious trust towards paying digitally to the underworld of technology. However, consumers do not always have the choice of payment method since the capability to pay using cash or card is usually determined by the operator providing the services.