Translink launches a national account-based ticketing system

Passengers travelling on Translink’s Metro bus services in Belfast (Nothern Ireland) are the first in Northern Ireland to be able to pay a flat fare for their journeys with a tap of their contactless bank card and benefit from daily fare-capping using the public transport operator’s contactless account-based ticketing system.

Translink has begun rolling out its interoperable Future Ticketing System on 270 Metro buses before extending it to more than 1,000 Ulsterbus and Goldliner vehicles and adding support for tap-on-tap-off fare payments on Metro, Glider, Ulsterbus and NI Railways services across the whole of Northern Ireland.

Passengers using the Translink Metro bus network in Belfast are benefiting from contactless payment technology as part of the operator’s Future Ticketing System, which has been developed in partnership with transport ticketing and payments specialists Flowbird.