Cubic Awarded $33 Million to Take Miami Transit’s EASY Card System to the Cloud, Enabling Mobile and Open Payment
August 02 2016 - 1:03PM
Business Wire
Cubic Transportation Systems’ success in London
and Chicago lays foundation for modernization initiative
Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS), a business unit of Cubic
Corporation (NYSE:CUB), today announced it was awarded a $33
million contract from the Miami-Dade County’s Department of
Transportation and Public Works (DTPW) to modernize the
Cubic-supplied EASY Card revenue management system and provide 10
years of back office cloud computing and support services. The
systems enhancement project provides a significant technology
refresh and expansion of customer services at a fraction of the
cost for a new system procurement. The award includes Cubic’s
contactless bankcard and Near Field Communications (NFC) mobile
open payment, as well as upgrades to fare terminals and the EASY
Card back office to process account-based transactions for new and
easy ways to pay.
The contract supports DTPW’s mission to provide more payment
options and a richer customer experience to its demographics,
including regular commuters, occasional riders, tourists and
visitors to the Miami area. These technology upgrades will
complement and enhance the existing EASY Card system, delivered by
Cubic in 2009, for the Department that has average daily boardings
of approximately 300,000 on Metrobus, Metrorail, Metromover and
Special Transportation Service.
In addition to EASY Card, Cubic’s payment technologies for DTPW
will represent a hybrid system drawing from Chicago and London, the
world’s two largest open and account-based payment transit systems
– developed by Cubic – and brings DTPW to the forefront of transit
agencies ready to embrace these proven technologies. Open payment
lets riders pay with the contactless bankcards already in their
wallets, as well as NFC-enabled mobile devices, with a simple tap
on fare readers. These single-journey payments are processed
directly against their bankcard accounts – eliminating the
inconvenience of dealing with unfamiliar ticket vending machines
and prices while saving time.
Mobile payments also will be supported through mobile wallets,
such as ApplePay, AndroidPay, and Masterpass. Emerging wearables,
such as the AppleWatch and Samsung Gear, will also be accepted.
In collaboration with Passport, Cubic will also introduce a new
mobile app that gives riders a range of convenient features and
tools, including EASY Card balance checking, viewing account
history, account management and fare product purchases for loading
to their EASY Cards. Passport is a leading provider of
transportation mobile applications, having delivered parking
applications in cities such as Chicago, Toronto, and Boston, as
well as, mobile ticketing applications in Sacramento, Cleveland,
and Jacksonville.
Riders will be able to add value to their existing EASY Cards or
download a virtual EASY Card into their NFC-enabled mobile phones.
For those with phones not supporting NFC, the app will support a
display-generated mobile ticket, both in visual and bar code form.
Other features will include the opportunity to participate in
transit rewards programs.
“Seamless travel remains a priority for the Department of
Transportation and Public Works, and what this project with Cubic
will deliver are options to enrich the traveler experience through
open and mobile payments, as well as moving back office operations
from us to Cubic – giving our agency the ability to focus on our
core mission of creating a full range of well-synchronized mobility
services within our community,” said Alice N. Bravo, P.E., director
of DTPW. “It’s important for our transit system to incorporate the
latest technologies, so this agreement represents another way that
we are moving forward into the future of transportation. Our
customers will be able to take advantage of a progressively broader
range of service enhancements as they roll out in stages over the
course of the next eight to 18 months.”
Other updates under the modernization program will include
upgrading and moving the Cubic back office system to the cloud,
through Cubic’s collaboration with Microsoft Corp., to take
advantage of the Microsoft Azure™ cloud environment. The enhanced
cloud platform, including the latest release of NextFare® along
with NextAccount® and NextWave®, not only provides operational cost
savings but also establishes the foundation for a broad range of
new services and commercial partnerships.
“Capabilities, innovation, service delivery improvements and
cost savings are recurring goals of our revenue management
solutions, reflecting our customers’ operational preferences,” said
Matt Newsome, senior vice president and general manager, Cubic
Transportation Systems, Americas. “The Department of Transportation
and Public Works is taking advantage of both its previous
investments and those Cubic has made in its NextCity suite of
hardware and software platforms. These platforms are designed to
enable existing customers to extend the life of their systems while
rapidly modernizing their fare programs by embracing the latest in
state-of-the-art payment, security, and mobile technologies.”
About Cubic Corporation
Cubic Corporation designs, integrates and operates systems,
products and services focused in the transportation, defense
training and secure communications markets. Cubic Transportation
Systems is a leading integrator of payment and information
technology and services to create intelligent travel solutions for
transportation authorities and operators. Cubic Global Defense is a
leading provider of live, virtual, constructive and game-based
training solutions, special operations and intelligence for the
U.S. and allied forces. Cubic Mission Solutions provides networked
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities for defense,
intelligence, security and commercial missions. For more
information about Cubic, please visit the company's website
at www.cubic.com or on Twitter @CubicCorp.
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