Biometric payments for public transportation expand in China, Russia

Biometrics are increasingly facilitating different processes in the public transportation sector, with new developments emerging from two countries – China and Russia. While a palm vein recognition payment system for metro tickets has been installed for trial at two metro stations in Shanghai and other parts of China, Moscow Transport in Russia says it is innovating and extending its biometric payments system for metro tickets, at a time when it is also discussing plans for introducing driverless trams using neural …

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