Cubic to Showcase Innovations in the Future of Transportation at APTA Expo

Cubic Transportation Systems to demonstrate cloud back office, Cubic Virtual Ticket Agent along with mobile and payment technologies

SAN DIEGO – October 5, 2017 – Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS), a business unit of Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB), today announced that its executives will discuss a variety of topics related to the current and future landscape of transportation from October 8–11, at the 2017 APTA Annual Meeting & EXPO in Atlanta, Georgia. CTS will also demonstrate how the company and its transportation agency clients are leading innovation in the sector.

“Today’s mobility challenges demand technologically advanced and imaginative solutions, as reflected by our innovations driven by our NextCity vision,” said Matt Cole, president of CTS. “Our vision for city management as well as integrated traveler payment and information sits at the heart of intelligent, sustainable and cost-effective transportation that will be the cornerstone for the future of smart cities.”

CTS executives will participate in the following sessions:

• “This is APTA”
  Sunday, October 8; 1 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. (local time); Marquis Ballroom C, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis Atlanta.
  Panelist: Jannet Walker Ford, vice president and general manager, Eastern Region, Americas.
• “WAKE UP BREAKFAST: Climbing the Ladder, Building the Pipeline”
  Wednesday, October 11; 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (local time); Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom, 5th Level, Georgia World Conference Center.
  Moderator: Jannet Walker Ford, vice president and general manager, Eastern Region, Americas.
• “Procurement –What Happened to the Good Old Ways? They Are No Longer Good!”
  Wednesday, October 11; 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. (local time); B 401, 4th Level, Georgia World Conference Center.
  Presenter: Boris Karsch, vice president, strategy.

In addition, the following Cubic technologies and projects will be on display at the Expo at booth B3613 on Monday, Oct. 9, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Tuesday, Oct. 10, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Wednesday, Oct. 11, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (local time) at the Georgia World Congress Center.

• Transforming the back office: demonstration will show how the Cubic Urban Mobility Back Office integrates with third-party CRM software to help agencies manage customer service, call centers, inventories, notifications and more.
• Managing integration between cloud apps, devices and in-house systems: demonstration of API management and how easy it is for third-party developers to connect to the Cubic back office and the benefits of cloud-based architecture.
• The Cubic Virtual Ticket Agent: a hybrid of a virtual walk-up ticket office and ticket vending machine video-linked to a live operator at a call center. The system helps public transit agencies to decrease or eliminate the need for customer service representatives at the least busy stations on a rail line, improve customer service at unattended devices and more easily address clients speaking different languages.
• Mobile ticketing and One Account: demonstrations of mobile ticketing, trip planning and payment trends. Demo will also show how a single account or funding source is the future of urban mobility, along with pay-as-you-go, account-based ticketing and Near Field Communication.
• NextBus: designed for multimodal transit agencies, authorities and operators, the NextBus Suite introduces a new Transit Management as a Service (TMaaS), cloud-based, machine learning architecture that will deliver the industry’s most intuitive trio of RTPI, proactive transit operations and mobile fare payments including services, software and hardware.