U.S. Local Transit Lines Rush to Introduce Mobile Ticketing
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Mobile ticketing will be commonplace on U.S. and international transit lines in the near future and we expect adoption to soar above 25% when that time comes.
Mobile ticketing adoption is currently expected to plateau around 25 percent in the United States.
Twenty-five percent of ticket sales for New York Waterways come through its app, which launched in 2012.
The New York City MTA expects 25 percent of Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North riders will use mobile ticketing five years after its (still to be determined) launch.
And 12 percent of TriMet riders in Portland are expected to use mobile ticketing by the end of the year, two years after launch and on track to hit 25 percent in the next two to three years.
Mobile ticketing adoption is on the rise in the U.S. at a time when local transit r
