How do Contactless Payments (cEMV) in Transit work? How does public transport ticketing works with scanning my credit or debit card?

Question

How can the system calculate one time or even trip based fares while keeping my data anonymized?

In: Technology

Answer 1

like any store.

you input what you where you want to ride, the machine calculates the cost and does a credit card transaction reserving that money off your credit card, so it either charges you that, or a lesser amount if its a system where you only get charged for whatever you ride.