Which cities' transit cards interfere with each other? [closed]

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Many public transit systems now use RFID cards for fare payments. Sometimes, multiple cities purchase systems from the same vendor, or use the same design, such that if you put cards for both cities on the reader, it would try to look up an account associated with the other city's card number, and either not find an account (& thus report the card is invalid) or in a rare case, charge some other random person's account.

For the purpose of this question, payment card/ID systems "interfere" if an attempt to read one credential on another system produces an error signal or unexpected behavior, different from what would happen if someone attempted to use blank paper or cardboard as a credential. For good answers, they do not have to both be transit systems (e.g. if some credit card system or large university access ID card or hotel chain key cards interfered, that would be good to know).

As a result of knowing the answer, a traveler with more than one city from a given interference set on his/her itinerary would know to keep the cards separate from one another and only hold up the correct city's card to the reader, instead of e.g. holding up a whole wallet or purse that contains the intended card as well as interfering ones.



Best Answer

Pretty much every card follows the standard ISO/IEC 15693 or ISO/IEC 14443 which means they operate on 13.56 MHz and will potentially interfere with each other. You might be lucky here or there but in general any two contactless cards will cause interference.




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Answer 2

The city of Boston, MA, US uses a system called CharlieCard, and the city of Pittsburgh, PA, US calls their system ConnectCard, but both apparently work on the same standards and will interfere with each other if carried or used together.

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