December 25, 2006
MasterCard Contactless PayPass On The Ohio Turnpike
The Ohio Turnpike is testing MasterCard's NFC-based contactless PayPass payment cards for toll plazas. According to a Telematics Journal report, this is the first toll road in the US to accept payment cards in self-service lanes. It should be noted that other toll roads have used pre-paid contactless cards for several years, though these are not credit card based. RFID in toll road systems have been in use in Toronto, Canada for nearly a decade and are also being tested in Argentina and other parts of South America. The same NFC technology in the PayPass started off in key fobs, which were introduced to consumers to pay for gas at some stations in North America (at least Esso in Canada and Exxon in the US).
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