MBTA and Masabi to Launch First Smartphone Rail Ticketing System in the U.S. Apps will allow Commuter Rail customers to purchase and display tickets on iPhone, Android and Blackberry BOSTON, MA – 23rd April 2012 – Today, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Masabi US Ltd, the transit mobile ticketing pioneer, jointly announce that [...]
masabi video interview – mTicketing revolution on track A video interview with Masabi CPO, Giacomo Biggiero, was recently published on airrail NEWS. Appearing alongside Jonathan Williams from Cubic Transportation Systems, Giacomo talks about Masabi’s successes in launching our mTicketing technology in the UK, as well as how mobile innovations such as NFC could transform the [...]
masabi developer team invades mobile world congress It’s always nice to get out of the office from time to time, and what better way to do it than by going to Barcelona! Masabi’s development team flew out to Barcelona in February to attend Mobile World Congress 2012. The visit was designed to offer the Masabi [...]
masabi ceo named as top transport innovator Masabi CEO Ben Whitaker was named by New Transit Magazine as one of the transport industry’s most influential innovators in their Power List 2012: Innovators & Pioneers, published on Tuesday 7th February. The list honours certain individuals across the transport sector who are introducing new ideas from [...]
Buy Rail Tickets on Everyday Mobile Phones and Smartphones with First TransPennine Express Apps No more queuing at stations with ticket machines in your pocket for Nokia, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and other popular phones. A local train company is launching a brand new application to quickly and easily help passengers plan journeys [...]
Imagine the year is 2001… Relatively speaking, it’s a bit of a Stone Age as far as mobile technology is concerned. It is time when colour screens on mobiles were rare, only 43% of us were texting each other, and we were all just discovering a really useful search engine called Google. We’re planning a [...]
Chiltern Railways has been named ‘App of the Week‘ for iPhone on the Apple App Store! The Chiltern Railways app, developed in conjunction with Masabi and Atos Origin, was launched on the 11th May and has since seen widespread media coverage from high-profile publications such as the Financial Times and the Gadget Show. Using the [...]
The Chiltern Railways app was given a starring role in last night’s episode of the Gadget Show on Channel 5. In the show’s regular challenge segment, two of the presenters raced each other to a destination using public transport. One used the latest technology to make her journey quicker and easier, while the other was [...]