Moscow Metro has 45,000 users for its Face Pay service since launching its rollout of facial recognition fare-payments in mid-October, the transit agency said today, in releasing more details about how the service works.
That is only 20,000 more registered users, however, since after the first full day of the Face Pay launch Oct. 15, during which the metro said 25,000 users had signed up. The metro also said today it has recorded 160,000 biometric transactions since the launch, or around 3,500 per day, on average. That, of course, is still a tiny percentage of daily rides on the massive subway system, which reportedly averaged nearly 7 million per day a couple of years before the Covid-19 outbreak.
But in a statement attributed to Maksim Liksutov, Moscow’s deputy mayor for Transport, the metro is still predicting that 10% to 15% of riders will regularly use Face Pay in two to three years.
