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‘Tullave’, the card provided by Recaudo Bogota in a closed-loop card system, posed some challenges: costly usage, outdated infrastructure, limited choice of payment methods and low speed of service.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.
Progress in digital technologies opens up an array of new opportunities for public transportation worldwide. With improvements in convenience, payment methods, and technologies, public transport such as bus and rail services are slowly becoming as convenient as your own personal mode of transport.
Payments in transport are gradually shifting from cash and closed-loop cards to a more holistic open-loop ticketing experience across all channels. The technological concept behind open-loop allows for the acceptance of any form of payment using fare media through the network of a transit operators or other ticketing service providers. Examples might include QR codes, NFC chips, key fobs, cards, transport virtual cards, smartwatches, and more. The degree of freedom an end-user could enjoy, whether they are a commuter or a business, greatly increases as there is no constraint linked to the use of cash, which remains an unhygienic means of payment in Covid times.
The transportation market contracted between 2020-2021 for obvious reasons and is only now starting to recover.