Flowbird - Let's Talk About Transport
9 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago -Flowbird’s podcast series - ‘Let’s Talk About Transport’ – engages with transport thought-leaders on the big issues impacting their industry.
Transport authorities, operators, and technology and payment providers all play a pivotal role in ensuring a sustainable future for cities and regions.
Working together to deliver seamless multimodal journeys, they positively impact people’s lives, improving the environment, economy and society.
In this podcast, we talk to the people at the leading edge of transforming passenger experience and making effortless mobility a reality.
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Chapter One: How do open-loop transit payments make mobility systems more sustainable and inclusive?
September 27, 2023 11:00 - 9 minutes - 6.35 MBIn chapter one of Flowbird’s latest 'Let’s Talk About Transport’ podcast, Thea Fisher from VISA talks about how contactless open-loop transit payments are transforming the passenger experience and encouraging a modal shift from private to public transport. She reflects on Visa’s recent survey of 75 transit agencies and 3,000 passengers, which showed the ease of tap-to-pay with EMV cards and devices is a key factor in motivating public transport use, with 80 percent of transit agencies seei...
How do open-loop transit payments make mobility systems more sustainable and inclusive?
September 27, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBChapter options: Chapter One - how contactless open-loop transit payments transform the passenger experience Chapter Two - the inside story on the incredible success of contactless open loop payments in Edinburgh Chapter Three - how open loop payments can be an enabler for Mobility as a Service Cities around the world are driven by a need to make urban mobility ecosystems sustainable and inclusive. In our latest ‘Let’s Talk About Transport’ podcast, Thea Fisher, VISA’s Senior Direct...
Chapter Two: How do open-loop transit payments make mobility systems more sustainable and inclusive?
September 27, 2023 10:00 - 8 minutes - 5.72 MBIn chapter two of the Flowbird podcast featuring Thea Fisher from VISA, we hear about the incredible success of contactless open loop payments in Edinburgh, where Lothian Buses is using the Flowbird Account Based Ticketing solution for its ‘tap, tap, cap’ system. This example demonstrates the popularity of EMV transit payments, with Lothian experiencing one of the fastest adoption rates ever after launching open loop payments in 2019. Four years later, one in two journeys using Lothian ...
Chapter Three: How do open-loop transit payments make mobility systems more sustainable and inclusive?
September 27, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutes - 6.71 MBIn chapter three of Flowbird's podcast featuring VISA’s Thea Fisher, we hear how open loop payment schemes are not only helping to reimagine the ridership experience for passengers but also contributing to a more sustainable transport ecosystem. One such stand-out example is in Monaco, where the Monapass app developed by Flowbird provides single sign on access to multimodal travel, bike hire, parking services and combined leisure and travel ticketing and payments…listen in to get the insid...
Will transport payments drive a MaaS revolution?
February 01, 2023 10:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBIn this episode, Mike Sussman, Flowbird's Head of UK Product Strategy, explores the transport payments landscape and the opportunities and challenges for open payments and Account Based Ticketing. He explains how these differ dramatically from region to region, influenced by factors including the numbers of unbanked and underbanked and the momentum behind contactless card issuance. He highlights the mutually beneficial relationship between ABT and open payments and unpicks buzzwords like ...
Let’s Talk About…Open Payments
March 23, 2022 12:00 - 13 minutes - 9.38 MBIn this latest Flowbird ‘Let’s Talk About Transport’ podcast, Andrea Soehnchen from UITP - the International Association of Public Transport – talks about the rise of Open Payments in transit environments. Andrea, who heads up the UITP Urban Mobility Open Payments Forum, assesses how the pandemic focused attention on contactless technologies – and explores the value of this payment system to operators and passengers in Account Based Ticketing schemes. At the same time, she believes that st...
MaaS, by its definition, should be a more inclusive service - we don’t want to detract from that inclusivity by hiding it behind a technical barrier
August 09, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBFlowbird’s new podcast series - ‘Let’s Talk About Transport’ – engages with industry thought leaders on the big issues driving convergence between public and private transport modes. Will MaaS benefit every part of the community or is there a risk that the less tech savvy or the unbanked could be left behind? In this podcast, Alastair McInroy, who is Chief Executive Officer of Technology Scotland, outlines how a MaaS, by its definition, should be a more inclusive service - we don’t want to ...
MaaS ecosystem must address issues of inclusivity to be truly successful
August 09, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBWill MaaS benefit every part of the community or is there a risk that the less tech savvy or the unbanked could be left behind? In this podcast, Alastair McInroy, who is Chief Executive Officer of Technology Scotland, outlines how a MaaS ecosystem must address issues of inclusivity to be truly successful.
Exploring the trends & technologies shaping the convergence of private and public transportation
May 12, 2021 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBFlowbird’s new podcast series - ‘Let’s Talk About Transport’ – engages with industry thought leaders on the big issues driving convergence between public and private transport modes. In our first podcast, Aurelien Cottet, a Director of the *MaaS Alliance, talks about the need to think beyond silos to fulfil the full potential of Mobility as a Service. He discusses…. · The acceleration of digitalisation as a result of the pandemic and the role of new generation ticketing in MaaS ·...