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Cubic wins Singapore fare collection project

A consortium of Cubic Corporation subsidiaries, Cubic Transportation Systems (Australia) and Cubic Technologies Singapore (C-Tech) has signed a contract with the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore to design and deliver automated fare collection equipment for the authority’s future Thomson-East Coast Line.
September 16, 2016 Read time: 1 min

A consortium of 378 Cubic Corporation subsidiaries, Cubic Transportation Systems (Australia) and Cubic Technologies Singapore (C-Tech) has signed a contract with the 918 Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore to design and deliver automated fare collection equipment for the authority’s future Thomson-East Coast Line.

The contract, valued at US$35.5 million ($48.5 million Singapore) includes the design, development, test and integration with LTA’s current fare collection system.

Under the agreement, Cubic will deliver a full suite of devices for deployment in stations and operations depots.

The LTA’s Thomson-East Coast Line is under construction with the first stage to be launched in 2019 and the last stage to be completed in 2024.

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