Cubic to trial open loop payment fare ticketing in Sydney, Australia

Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) has been awarded a contract worth US$7.6 million (AU$10.2 million) from Transport for New South Wales to deliver a trial of an open loop payments ticketing technology to Sydney, Australia’s largest city. The trial, to begin in 2017, will allow Sydney commuters using participating payment schemes to tap their contactless bankcard directly on Opal readers at the trial site to pay for travel. According to Tom Walker, senior vice president and managing director of Asia
December 19, 2016 Read time: 1 min
378 Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) has been awarded a contract worth US$7.6 million (AU$10.2 million) from Transport for New South Wales to deliver a trial of an open loop payments ticketing technology to Sydney, Australia’s largest city.

The trial, to begin in 2017, will allow Sydney commuters using participating payment schemes to tap their contactless bankcard directly on Opal readers at the trial site to pay for travel.  

According to Tom Walker, senior vice president and managing director of Asia Pacific, Cubic Transportation Systems, technology elements of both the London and Chicago systems will be incorporated in the new Sydney contactless project, leveraging the best of both combined with the Opal system.

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