VTB and the Moscow Metro are rolling out a new program that allows metro riders to pay their fares using biometric data at all stations in October using the Face Pay system, which allows customers to travel with facial recognition technology and high processing volumes.
Customers submit their biometric data and link their bank cards, where the fares are debited as customers pass through the turnstile. About 15,000 passengers use Face Pay to travel on four Moscow Metro lines.
“It sounds fantastical, but about six years ago, it was only possible to pay for travel with a bank card at one turnstile in the entire metro,” said Maxim Liksutov, head of the Moscow Department of Transport. “Facial recognition testing for fare payment is in full swing. Soon we will connect all the remaining lines, and as the Moscow mayor said, in October, we will make it available on the entire metro.”
“We have previously provided the technical possibility of seamless transfers from one mode of…