Enghouse Transportation partners with Switchio to expand transit customer payment offering

Enghouse Transportation has partnered with electronic payment firm Switchio to expand its automated transit fare collection offering. 

Enghouse Transportation, a provider of automated fair collection transit software solutions in the Netherlands, Central Europe and Eastern Europe, is expanding into the North American market. 

"Our strategic cooperation with Switchio bolsters our ability to deliver transit solutions in the United States, Canada and other markets," said Toofan Otaredian, managing director, Enghouse Transportation. "Switchio has unique strengths in its smart cities portfolio, especially EMV card acceptance in public transit and parking. Switchio also offers modular solutions that enable quick and effortless EMV bank card payments for transit systems and operators." 

Switchio is headquartered in the Czech Republic. The company participated in the country's first chip payment card systems.   

"We're very pleased to embark on this new collaboration with Enghouse," said Switchio Transport Business Leader Jaroslav Stuchlík. "We have already established a presence in the Americas with a successful implementation in Guatemala and another is currently underway in Chile. We now look forward to introducing our innovative digitalization solution to the North American market."