Posts tagged Charmcard
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SmarTrip was revolutionary, but it’s 20 years old. What’s next?
It was less than 20 years ago — 1999 to be exact — when Metro released SmarTrip, the first contactless payment card in American public transportation. A few years later, Baltimore’s CharmCard was designed to integrate with SmarTrip. At the time our region was a national model for mobility payment technology, but it’s hard to imagine anyone making such a claim today. Keep reading…
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What if our region had a seamless platform for buses, bikeshare, ride-hail, and more?
If you’re like me, you use a SmarTrip card, a Capital Bikeshare dongle, and half a dozen apps on your smartphone to access ridehail, bikeshare, or carshare — and none of them communicate with each other. That leads to time wasted toggling back and forth, especially if a trip requires more than one service. What if you could manage all of these in one place? Keep reading…
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Maryland launches Smartrip-compatible smartcard
Some crazy rumors about a Baltimore-Washington compatible smartcard are finally true. Maryland will launch the CharmCard, which is fully compatible with transit systems in Baltimore and the Washington area. The cards go on sale Tuesday. The card is available at CVS and Giant locations in the Baltimore region, and cost $10 with $7.50 of credit pre-loaded. … Keep reading…