EMT Valencia Awards Contract to Masabi to Deliver New Mobile Ticketing and MaaS Solution Across Spain’s Third Largest City
System will see company’s fare payments platform used to provide ticketing for operator and MaaS providers’ mobile apps and power 3rd party validators on buses citywide
London, UK & Valencia, Spain, 29th of September 2022 Masabi, the company bringing Fare Payments-as-a-Service to public transport, today announced that it has signed a contract with EMT Valencia, the public operator which runs urban buses for the city of Valencia, to deliver a next generation fare payment solution across its fleet of more than 500 buses, making public transport in the city easier to access.
The contract builds on the existing long term relationship between EMT Valencia and Masabi and will allow passengers to pay for public transport in a range of more convenient ways, including the new EMT Valencia app as well as other mobility-as-a-service apps already live in the city. With the EMT Valencia app, passengers will be able to pay for public transport and plan their journey all from within the same app. The system will be enabled using Masabi’s Justride platform, and passengers will benefit from the installation of new validation devices across EMT Valencia’s bus fleet, enabling faster onboarding with QR codes and providing the foundations for further future innovations including Account-Based Ticketing (ABT) and payments using smartcards or contactless bank cards.
“We’re delighted to see our collaboration with EMT Valencia reach another milestone as we continue to revolutionise public transport across Spain and around the globe,” said Brian Zanghi, CEO of Masabi. “We are excited to be building on our existing mobile ticketing deployment with the city to make taking public transport as simple and quick as possible and to provide a model to other cities in the country.”
Masabi’s cloud-native and shared platform, Justride, is in use with over 150 transport authorities and operators of all sizes world-wide including Lurraldebus and Bilbobus in Spain. It means that transport authorities and operators that adopt Justride no longer need to purchase their own design-and-build bespoke ticketing systems, which are expensive, slow, and risky to deploy, and do not update regularly with new features and functionality unless significant amounts of money are invested. Instead, using a Fare Payments-as-a-Service approach, authorities and operators can benefit from the latest innovations delivered quickly and cost-effectively, with regular feature updates everyone benefits from.
About Masabi
Masabi is bringing Fare Payments-as-a-Service to public transit agencies and authorities of all sizes around the globe. This enables the delivery of the latest fare payment innovations quickly, using a platform that is constantly updating and adding new features. Not only does this improve the journey experience for passengers, but it helps agencies keep up with the pace of technology change while reducing the total cost of fare collection. Justride, named Ticketing Technology of the Year 2019 and 2020, is used by more than 150 public transit agencies and operators of all sizes across 9 countries. Masabi has offices in New York, Denver, London, and Cluj. For more information, visit www.masabi.com
About EMT Valencia
The Municipal Transport Company of Valencia provides public transport services to the city of Valencia and to some towns of the metropolitan area. EMT Valencia is staffed by 1,700 employees who ensure provision of the public service. In 2019, around 97 million of travelers used the public buses, 10% more than four years ago, and the company was the highest scoring municipal service as evaluated by all citizens in Valencia. EMT Valencia is a company committed to a sustainable, accessible and more energy-efficient public transport service to combat climate change and promote a safe and friendly city. https://www.emtvalencia.es/
