In chapter two of the Flowbird podcast featuring Thea Fisher from VISA, we hear about the incredible success of contactless open loop payments in Edinburgh, where Lothian Buses is using the Flowbird Account Based Ticketing solution for its ‘tap, tap, cap’ system.
This example demonstrates the popularity of EMV transit payments, with Lothian experiencing one of the fastest adoption rates ever after launching open loop payments in 2019.
Four years later, one in two journeys using Lothian Buses start with an EMV ‘tap’ and the Edinburgh bus company recently recorded over 100,000 taps in a single day by passengers using its account-based ticketing system, developed by Flowbird.
In this chapter, Thea also describes how fare capping is helping democratise access to best value fares...
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