Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security

Cubic taps Walt Bonneau to manage growing transit business

Monday, July 28, 2008

Smart card and transit systems veteran Walt Bonneau has been promoted to senior vice president and group general manager at Cubic Corp. to oversee the company’s growing involvement in the mass transportation industry. He will also have responsibility for oversight of the commercialization and market development for eAccess, part of the Cubic family of companies.

Prior to his new role, Bonneau was a senior vice president at Cubic subsidiary Cubic Transportation Systems in charge of engineering, technology and marketing. During his 10-year tenure at Cubic, Bonneau has held multiple senior positions.

He is the recipient of 12 U.S. patents ranging from high speed programmable logic to smart card multi-protocol. He has also served as the vice-chairman of the ANSI/INCITS B10 National Standards Organization that is working with the International Standards Organization to encourage and respond to the proliferation of smart cards and contactless technologies. [end] 

Related Articles
Smart Card Alliance releases NFC transit report

The Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council has published a white paper examining how the transit industry can best make use of NFC technology.

“One of the major challenges facing transit agencies today is how to capitalize on the ever-growing popularity of mobile phones with a solid mobile strategy,” said Transportation Council Chairman Craig Roberts. “This white paper builds on the knowledge base developed in earlier white papers to foster a greater understanding of NFC technology, explain its role in the transit industry, and shed light on key issues facing the transit industry in developing a mobile strategy.”

read more »
Report: India, the world's fastest growing smart card market

India is emerging as one of the world’s fastest growing smart card markets, according to a new research report by RNCOS. With more than one billion in population and increasing modern application areas, India is anticipated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of approximately 15% during 2011-2014.

read more »
Cubic responds to Clipper card exploits

Cubic Transportation Systems, distributor of the electronic transit Clipper card, has responded to the recent news of a Ph.D. student in IT Security allegedly breaking the encryption in Clipper and similar transit cards.

read more »
Ahmedabad deploys smart cards for bus transit system

India transport operator Ahmedabad Janmarg Ltd. has launched a smart transit card for commuters traveling on the region’s bus system, according to ISO&Agent.

The agency began a six-month trial and August 2010 followed by a soft and silent launch in January 2012. The card is available now for a nonrefundable fee of 25 rupees ($.50 US cents) and allows commuters to travel for up to 100 minutes on one bus, for the minimum fare.

read more »
Cubic adds touch-screen video display to ticketing machines

Cubic Transportation Systems has announced that it is integrating new touch-screen video displays into its next generation ticketing machines for public transit.

According to Cubic, the new technology permits transit agencies to show video advertising, information, marketing, maps and other messages directly at the point of purchase.

read more »
Cubic to deliver mobile ticketing app to Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund

Cubic Transportation Systems has announced that it will provide Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund (NVV), a public transit authority in the German state of Hessen, with a mobile phone-based service for rail and bus ticketing.

read more »

↓Ads by AVISIAN↓
Subscribe to the Contactless News Library
Gain access to the largest collection of Auto-ID analysis on the Internet.
Copyright © 2012, AVISIAN, Inc. All rights reserved.