Payment via smartphone, smart watch coming to Queensland public transport
A new ticketing system will allow people to pay for Queensland public transport using their smartphones, credit cards and contactless credit cards, the state government says.
A new ticketing system will allow people to pay for Queensland public transport using their smartphones, credit cards and contactless credit cards, the state government says.
Victoria is preparing to allow customers to pay for public transport using their Android-based smartphones.
Metro Trains Melbourne has advised that all trains across its network “are currently stopped due to a computer failure”.
The current operator of Victoria’s myki smartcard ticketing system, NTT Data, has won a new contract to run the system for another seven years.
The NSW government is calling on developers to be part of an event designed to create apps that will help people with impairment or disability easily use the public transport system.
The Northern Territory government will provide free Wi-Fi services on public buses in Darwin and Alice Springs by following the successful introduction of the program earlier this month.
Queensland’s buses may soon run to a tighter schedule, as the TransLink Transit Authority rolls out a real time passenger information system (RTPIS).
Post-graduate IT students from Carnegie Mellon University Australia (CMUA) have created a mobile phone app that provides commuters with live timetable information.