With the Olympic Games approaching in 2008, China expects a growing demand for various cards, including transit cards, bank cards and social security cards, said Jafizwaty Haji Ishahak, an analyst in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with Frost & Sullivan, a consulting company.
That means they will work with blank NFC tags or even "contactless" credit cards, transit cards or ID cards, the company explains.
(AP) HACKENSACK: REGIONAL FARE CARD Mass transit officials are giving their support to a proposed "smart card" that riders could use to pay fares in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
SmarTrip was the first contact-less smart card for transit in the United States when WMATA began selling SmarTrip cards on May 18 , 1999
That set, along with thousands of other cards — including transit passes from Atlanta, Los Angeles and Tokyo — are a part of Mr. Radin's collection, neatly displayed in four large binders.
Passports, certain credit cards, mass transit passes, drivers licenses and more!
The patchwork of bus routes that do exist are notoriously slow; in its report cards, the transit advocacy coalition Bus Turnaround reported that the buses in District 58 go 6.7 miles per hour, on average a little more than twice the normal walking speed.
Mini pockets hold either business cards or Japanese-style transit cards and a charming illustrated hang-tag shows that you can place devices like CD players and circa-1999 Pilotsintos inthethe smaller pockets.
Bikeep's locks are activated with Clipper cards (the Bay Area's reloadable transit cards).
The ring pairs with most credit cards, its own electronic lock, many car ignition systems, passwords, transit cards and even corporate access cards, according to a statement.
