Mastercard has teamed up with Masabi, a UK-headquartered mobile public transport ticketing vendor.
Masabi’s JustRide system is designed to enable passengers to experience a faster and more convenient way to get around a city’s transit system.
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Masabi will integrate Mastercard’s MasterPass utility into its JustRide service, allowing one touch payments.
Athens will be the first city to benefit from the Masabi/MasterCard JV.
Brian Zanghi, CEO of Masabi, said: "Athens is our first deployment working with MasterCard, and we look forward to working together to enable mobile ticketing and payments in other cities around the globe."
The first public transport network to use JustRide’s mobile ticketing service was the MBTA service in Boston.
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By GlobalDataSince then, JustRide has been rolled out in cities such as New York, London and San Diego.
UK clients of Masabi include train operating companies Virgin, ScotRail, Abellio and Chiltern.
