Nottingham City Transport (NCT) has rolled out contactless bus tickets across its fleet, using INIT validators.
The new payment system uses INIT’s PROXmobil3 units. The best fare is automatically calculated for the user, taking into account all journeys made during a single day, charging a single payment at a daily capped rate.
Trials last month saw the system achieve a 96% satisfaction score from a pool of 600 trial users.
Jens Mullak, Managing Director of INIT, says: “Cashless payments have been increasingly popular in recent years, and the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this shift away from traditional ticketing.
“With advice continuing to be that people should pay by card wherever possible, the introduction of contactless payments for Nottingham couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time. The new system will mean safer, quicker boarding and an improved fare structure for users of the service, and also help the operator make savings by reducing the need to handle cash.”
Marketing and Communications Director at NCT Nicola Tidy adds: “The launch of adult pay-as-you-go contactless payments on NCT buses offers our customers another cashless, convenient way to pay for their bus journeys.
“By simply tapping their contactless card or device on the bus each time they board, the contactless system does the hard work by adding up their journeys and charging customers based on their journeys during the day.”
INIT delivers a range of products for Nottingham’s bus and tram network, including automatic vehicle location, an intermodal transport control system and real time passenger information. It recently revealed that three million contactless payments were made in the first year of its implementation on National Express West Midlands’ buses.
