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Panel: ‘Contactless Smart Cards for Transit Fare Payment: A Paradigm Shift’

8:14 PM EST on November 6, 2006

MTA New York City Transit is exploring an option that permits payment of fare at the point of entry using a standard, bank-issued contactless smart card device. This is a paradigm shift from traditional approaches to fare collection in which transit agencies issue fare media and tickets that are integral to a stand-alone, custom-designed fare collection system. Panelists will review this paradigm shift and explore some of its implications.

Featured Panelists:

Randy Vanderhoof, Smart Card Alliance

Gregory Garback, Smart Card Alliance

Burt Willhem, MasterCard Worldwide

Steve Frazzini, MTA NYC Transit

Paul Korczak, MTA NYC Transit

Aaron Donovan
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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