Contactless payment has been increasing in significance as a payment type of Transport for London public transport services over the past years. In 2023/24, 68 percent of fare payments were made by contactless cards. The share of payments made by Oyster card, which still accounted for over a third of fare payments in 2018/19, had dropped to 21 percent.
Share of fare payments made on Transport for London services from 2018/19 to 2023/24 on a typical weekday, by payment type
Data was collected on the following days: Thursday 7 February 2019 Thursday 6 February 2020 Thursday 4 February 2021 Thursday 10 February 2022 Thursday 9 February 2023
Thursday 8 February 2024
Data excludes paper single tickets, which make up less than one percent of fare payments recorded by Transport for London.
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Transport for London. (July 5, 2024). Share of fare payments made on Transport for London services from 2018/19 to 2023/24 on a typical weekday, by payment type [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1413230/transport-for-london-fare-payment-type/
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