Biometric Fare Payment to Launch on Moscow Central Diameters
Passengers will be able to pay for rides using facial recognition starting this summer.
Biometric fare payment will launch this summer on the Moscow Central Diameters (MCD) lines D1, D2, and D4, covering 326 entry points across 74 stations.
To use the system, passengers do not need to perform any additional actions – they simply look at a camera installed at the turnstile. Users must first enroll through the Metro Moskvy (Moscow Metro app), where they upload a photo and link a bank card in their account. The system then converts the data into an anonymized code, a key security feature that prevents it from being reconstructed into an image or tied back to a specific individual.
At present, around 800,000 users are registered in the biometric system. Since 2021, they have completed about 200 million entries using facial recognition.
