Venice and Dublin announce contactless payment rollouts

Venice, Italy has launched a contactless open payments system across it transportation network.

Managed by the city's Azienda Veneziana della Mobilità (AVM), the system has been designed by Conduent Transportation and is part of plans to modernise the network which counts over 180 million passengers each year.

“It’s been a few busy months of work that has made [the] technology a reality on the whole transport network managed by AVM,” said Giovanni Seno, general manager of Gruppo AVM.

“We have progressively improved the customer experience of the new validators – also listening to feedback received from passengers – and we are looking forward to the summer season with an innovation t...