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Procurement strategy, RFP development, stakeholder workshops, and PMO leadership for public-sector fare programs — the work that determines whether a multi-million dollar rollout stays on budget.
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Fare system strategy, contactless/NFC deployment, account-based ticketing (ABT), and MaaS integration across agencies, operators, and municipal councils.
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EMV integration, digital wallets, open- and closed-loop systems, PCI compliance, and real-time reconciliation for banks and fintechs entering transit or retail payments.
High Street led BC Transit’s province-wide EMV rollout from stakeholder workshops through pilot to full deployment — scaling from a 40,000-rider pilot to more than 2,000,000 riders using tap-to-pay across the province.
TransLink’s Compass RFP has grown from $220 million to $507 million before a vendor is even picked. A look at what that number actually means, and what Boston’s MBTA AFC 2.0 program can teach about structuring the contract that comes next.
NJ Transit, ORCA, Apple Pay, and California’s Clipper 2.0 all went live with contactless fare payment this year. Here’s what the wave of 2026 tap-to-pay launches actually reveals about transit payment modernization, NFC technology, and the program management work underneath it.
Fare collection has quietly become one of the highest-leverage investments a transit agency can make. Legacy systems built around cash and magnetic stripe cards are past their useful life, and riders now expect the same frictionless experience they get from every other tap-to-pay interaction in their day. Agencies that treat fare modernization as a technology…
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