Moscow Metro reports wide biometric ticketing adoption

Passengers travelling on the Moscow Metro and Moscow Central Circle services in Moscow paid for a total of around 32m journeys using the network’s FacePay biometric contactless fare payment system and more than 220,000 new users registered to use FacePay during 2022, Moscow Metro reports.

Additionally, FacePay users will soon be able to link student discount cards and other passes and ‘social transport’ cards to the system, Moscow Metro says.

The metro operator began publicly testing the FacePay biometric contactless payment system in August 2021 before launching a network-wide rollout in September 2021.