New York City’s underground transit system may be the final digital frontier: on the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)’s hundreds of miles of subterranean track, Internet access is not available. But a speculative ad campaign has suggested that a Wi-Fi-free digital information exchange on the subway is possible—and could boost library readership. The one minute “Underground Library” commercial from students at the Miami Ad School promotes an as-yet nonexistent library program...

Since April 2, 2013, the  Transport  Department of Moscow offers passengers the opportunity to use the new plastic card "Troyka", an electronic purse , which allows to pay fares in the capital public transport  using fixed rates,  determined by  the kind  of transport and form   of its use. In particular , since  June 1, 2013 it will be  introduced a new tariff plan " 90 Minutes ," which will offer passengers the...

ABI Research forecasts 2.1 billion contactless credentials – a combination of smart cards and limited use RFID solutions – will ship into the transportation and ticketing market in 2018, just more than double that achieved in 2012. In 2012, MiFare solutions accounted for more than 80% of all contactless ticketing credentials deployed. While ABI Research expects it to remain as the number one solution of choice, new standards coming to market, including CiPurse and a fast increasing...

RTA, the Dubai roads and transport authority, has announced plans to introduce NFC ticketing across the emirate's metro, bus and water bus services next year. RTA , Dubai's public transportation authority, is to implement an NFC ticketing system, chairman Mattar Al Tayer has announced. The service, currently undergoing pilot testing, will be delivered in conjunction with mobile network operators Etisalat and Du and will go live in 2013, making it the first service of its kind in the...

The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine is initiating introduction of single travel document, completed on one blank form, for two railway travels: with one transfer and for round trip, reads a statement made by the Ministry. "At passenger's will, one-transfer trips and round trips completed on single travel document," reads the Ministry's draft order 'On approving alterations to the rules of carriage of passengers, luggage, freight baggage, and mail by railway transport in Ukraine' dated...

Belarusian Railways has launched electronic registration of travelers, media learnt from Belarusian Railways. At first the company will have a test run of the service starting from 12 September. Passengers travelling by train No. 106/105 Brest-Minsk and No. 117/118 Vitebsk Minsk will be the first to take advantage of electronic registration. Travelers will be able to pay for train tickets online using a banking card. Before boarding a train, they will be asked to present an ID...

Never mind the $16 billion in the bank, the poster child for botched IPOs could have saved itself all sorts of grief by staying private. It's a strange world we live in when a financing event that raised $16 billion for an eight-year-old company is widely panned as a failure. It's even odder when tongues wag that the young CEO of that same company, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, should be fired because of the company's lousy reception in the public markets and his general disregard for the...