The Journal, Nov. 20th, 2019 link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cash payments were still common among some passengers and accounted for up to 20% of all journeys, which slowed down boarding time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The National Transport Authority has issued a market consultation notice to engage with potential service providers as part of its plans to advance the implementation of an Account-Based Ticketing (ABT) <\/strong>system across the bus, rail, and light rail network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It will allow passengers to pay for their journey through their mobile phones, bank cards or official ID card or passport, removing the need to carry a special card for commuting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7 years to integrate a cashless technology that\u2019s been around for the last 5 years\u2026. that\u2019s absolutely embarrassing!!<\/p>Tony Henry, comments on The Journal <\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n … If this would be the case would it not be a quicker \/ easier solution to update the app rather than overhauling the entire system. Especially a system that completely eliminates cash \/ topup payments<\/p>Kevin Mischling, comments on The Journal <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Over three million Leap cards have been sold since the \u20ac55 million smart card system was introduced in December 2011, with transactions worth over \u20ac320 million processed last year \u2013 up almost 16% in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why the authority wants to invest a large amount of money probably over \u20ac20 million and to giveaway the profitable and growing fare collection business to Visa, Master Card, Apple Pay,…?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why not spend the money to develop its own account-based payment, mobile-based payment or to develop the local vertical market like retail, event ticketing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The author has over 18 years of experience in the automated fare collection industry. The latest development of mobile wallets is worth looking into. To learn more, please visit mobileafc.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Journal, Nov. 20th, 2019 link Plans progress to replace Leap cards with account-based payment by 2027 Cash payments were still common among some passengers and accounted for up to 20% of all journeys, which slowed down boarding time. The National Transport Authority has issued a market consultation notice to engage with potential service providers … Continue reading “Why Irish NTA replaces Leap cards with account-based payment?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,27,7,12,19,20,28,9,29],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_1420333469-390x285.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobileafc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Plans progress to replace Leap cards with account-based payment by 2027<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Why replace it with an account-based system?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Conclusion<\/h4>\n\n\n\n