APAC region leads in smart card payments for travel

摘要

Public transport users in cities throughout the Asia Pacific region are big users of smart cards - or radio frequency contactless cards - and now lead the world in using the cards to pay for their travel. Hong Kong was the first region to employ an RFID smart card system in 1997 called the Octopus, and 95 percent of the population with 11 million transactions across metro, buses, ferries and, even with more than 10,000 retail outlets in the city.