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Caltrans Awarded $7.7M Advanced Technology Grant

Caltrans Awarded $7.7M Advanced Technology Grant
Caltrans has announced that it was awarded $7.7 million in federal Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation grant funding to support the Southern California Mobility Wallet, an innovative way to improve access to transportation through a seamless payment system.

” The Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation grant will expand the Southern California Mobility Wallet project, which uses “open-loop” payments technology to offer seamless payment to highway and transit services for Los Angeles County residents.The project also issues direct funds to Los Angeles County residents to pay for mobility services, enabling travelers to purchase rides on local public transportation with their contactless credit and debit cards.The Southern California Mobility Wallet stems from a partnership between the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Caltrans, which created and manages the California Integrated Travel Project, an initiative to expand multimodal travel throughout California by standardizing payments, trip planning, and customer discounts.The California Integrated Travel Project has successfully led contactless open-loop payment implementations in California on Monterey-Salinas and Santa Barbara buses; Sacramento light rail; intercity passenger rail between Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area; on-demand transit vans; and LAX’s FlyAway bus, which connects airport passengers to commuter rail in Los Angeles.

7 million in federal Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation grant funding to support the Southern California Mobility Wallet, an innovative way to improve access to transportation through a seamless payment system.Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation grants are administered by the U.

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