June 2025

Part 3 - QR, EMV and Fare Collection

Part 3 - QR, EMV and Fare Collection

Ingo Noka

In my previous post I outlined why QR-based payments are problematic for ticketing applications. However, there are ways to use QR codes in automated fare collection systems, which I will describe in this post.

Part 2 - QR, EMV and Fare Collection

Part 2 - QR, EMV and Fare Collection

Ingo Noka

In my previous post, I outlined why EMV is eminently suited for account-based ticketing. QR and eWallet payments, on the other hand, do not seem to fare so well in the fare collection world.

In this post, I am looking at the reason why that might be so.