NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – RTC of Southern Nevada, the main transit agency serving Las Vegas and the surrounding region, now enables customers to buy passes for bike share in addition to tickets for buses through the trip-planning Transit app. Although the implementation is relatively small, project backers say Las Vegas is the first U.S. city to launch bike share and transit passes in the same app.
The move follows RTC’s launch of mobile ticketing for bus fares in the Transit app and also in the Uber ride-hailing app in January 2020. RTC also offers mobile ticketing through its own mobile app, RideRTC, which it rolled out more than four years ago.
In addition to the city’s 400 buses, the transit agency also oversees RTC Bike Share, with at least 150 bicycles at 21 stations operated by Bicycle Transit Systems, with hardware–including bicycles, stations, docks and mobile technology–provided by vendor BCycle. Until recently, to buy bicycle passes and unlock bikes, customers needed a separate mobile account.
