Cubic Nextfare MFU

Cubic Nextfare is a ticketing platform. This document describes the format used by systems on MIFARE Ultralight, which are exclusively used for single-use tickets.

All numbers on the card are stored as little-endian. Full reverse engineered specification is available from http://www.lenrek.net/experiments/compass-tickets/

Identifying a Cubic Nextfare MFU card

• Card serial numbers start with "0001", and have 20 digits. (eg: 0001 1234 5678 9012 3456)
• The card is made of paper or cardboard.
• The card magic identifier on the card.

Note: These only apply to Nextfare on MIFARE Ultralight. Other systems use different numbering.

Deployments (cities)

• Compass (Vancouver, BC, CA)
• Ventra (Chicago, IL, US)

Note: Single-use Opal (Sydney) and Clipper (San Francisco) cards use a different system.

Unconfirmed, possible deployments

From Page 3 of Introducing Cubic (deleted), Cubic Corporation Overview Dec 2014 (deleted), Cubic Transportation Systems Overview Brochure

• Minneapolis, MN, USA
• Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Charmcard (Baltimore, MA)
• Compass Card (San Diego)
• Jojo (Skåne, Sweden)
• MARTA Breeze (Atlanta)
• Miami Easy Card
• Modena, Italy
• PATCO Freedom Card
• EASY Card (Florida)
• Washington, DC, USA

These all appear to have similar Value-Add machines to other Nextfare deployments.

Note: London, UK uses magnetic system Note: Brisbane uses paper tickets without any NFC