Swift card

Swift
Location West Midlands (county)
Technology
Manager Transport for West Midlands
Currency GBP
Stored-value Pay-as-you-go
Validity
Retailed
Variants
Website networkwestmidlands.com/swift/

Swift is an electronic ticketing scheme developed by Transport for West Midlands for use on public transport in the West Midlands metropolitan area in England, similar to the Oyster card in Greater London. Rather than being a single card, it is a range of travel cards under a common name.

History

Introduction began in 2012, with a phased rollout estimated to be completed by the end of 2015 when the system is rolled out across the local rail network, as part of rail devolution in the West Midlands county.[1] Bus operators began to accept the scheme during this roll out; National Express West Midlands began accepting pay-as-you-go Swift cards in September 2015. In May 2018 at the Google I/O conference, it was announced that the Swift smartcard would be integrated with Google Pay to allow transport users to purchase a travel card online and have it immediately available on the users mobile device running the Android operating system [2].

References

  1. ↑ http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/just-ticket-birmingham-commuters-oyster-style-8931699
  2. ↑ Android Developers (2018-05-08), Build with Google Pay (Google I/O '18), retrieved 2018-09-21
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