By Tom Phillips[1] • • Updated • nfcw.com[2]
Passengers on New York subway and bus services have tapped their contactless bank card or mobile wallet to pay their fares using the Omny[3] open loop fare payment system more than 50m times since the service launched in May 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority[4] (MTA) has announced.
“On an average weekday, the MTA receives 307,000 Omny taps,” the authority says.
“Seventy-nine per cent of those are at subway stations and the other 21% are on buses.
“The highest one-day tap total since Omny was launched in May 2019 came on March 5, with 339,000 taps.”
“Omny currently accounts for nearly 10% of all taps in the system, 12.4% in the subway system and 4.5% on buses. A year ago, that figure was at over 4% and the figure is expected to grow throughout 2021,” the authority adds.
The MTA has also confirmed plans announced in January[5] to launch a physical Omny contactless card, incorporate more fare options and roll out an Omny mobile app “beginning this year”.
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