Smart tickets from the newsagents

Public transport users will soon be able to top-up their smartcard tickets at retailers, under a deal between smart ticketing company, Ecebs, and Payzone, a provider of payment processing terminals at UK retail outlets such as convenience stores, newsagents and off-licences. The project will see Ecebs’ ‘remote ticket download’ software, certified by ITSO, installed in all 20,000 Payzone outlets across the UK over the next 18 months. Centro is expected to become the first...