UTA To Test Contactless Payment Card System

At present, no other American transit agency uses a fare collection system like the one UTA is proposing. In places like Washington, D.C. and New York, subway riders do use paper tickets with electronic strips, but the technology isn't available for riders to use a credit card as both a ticket and payment mechanism. For that reason and others (such as the ability to track riders), Fiet says UTA's system would be more convenient and provide greater benefit to riders.

By spring, UTA hopes to select a company to design a pilot for its contactless fare collection system. The system would then be installed temporarily on UTA's 40 ski buses. Resort employees and season pass holders at the resorts would be the first to use the system.