Transit rewards / 公共交通奖励计划

Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards riders with Waymo Cash when they connect their Waymo rides with public transit and use their Visa card. We’ll start with employee access before gradually rolling out to the public in the coming weeks.

今天，Waymo 很高兴宣布推出我们的公共交通奖励计划。该计划将首先在旧金山湾区推行，未来将扩展至更多城市。这项首创的举措旨在奖励那些将 Waymo 出行与公共交通相结合并使用 Visa 卡支付的乘客，奖励形式为 Waymo Cash。我们将首先向员工开放，并在未来几周内逐步向公众推广。

Public transit networks and shared autonomous vehicles are part of a complementary mobility ecosystem. As transit agencies modernize their payment systems to accept tap-to-pay debit and credit cards, multimodal trips are becoming more convenient than ever. “Governor Newsom has challenged all of us to build a transportation system that meets Californians where they are, and that means making the trip to the station as effortless as the train ride itself,” said California Transportation Secretary Toks Omishakin. “CalSTA welcomes innovations that reward people for choosing transit and make a multimodal trip feel like one seamless journey.”

公共交通网络与共享自动驾驶车辆共同构成了一个互补的出行生态系统。随着交通机构不断升级支付系统以支持非接触式借记卡和信用卡支付，多模式联程出行正变得前所未有的便捷。加州交通部长 Toks Omishakin 表示：“纽森州长要求我们所有人构建一个能够满足加州民众需求的交通系统，这意味着前往车站的旅程必须像乘坐火车一样轻松。加州交通局（CalSTA）欢迎那些能够奖励选择公共交通的乘客，并让多模式联程出行变得无缝衔接的创新举措。”

Recent surveys show that over 50% of Waymo riders in our most mature service areas (San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix) use public transit, so we’re proud to invest directly in this connectivity to make everyday commutes easier and more affordable. The transit rewards program works alongside the regional transfer discount programs and tap-to-pay model launched in the San Francisco Bay Area last December. The program applies to all 27 San Francisco Bay Area transit agencies that accept contactless Visa tap-to-pay.

近期调查显示，在我们服务最成熟的地区（旧金山、洛杉矶和凤凰城），超过 50% 的 Waymo 乘客会使用公共交通。因此，我们很自豪能直接投资于这种连接性，让日常通勤变得更轻松、更实惠。该奖励计划与去年 12 月在旧金山湾区推出的区域换乘折扣计划及非接触式支付模式相辅相成。该计划适用于旧金山湾区所有 27 家支持 Visa 非接触式支付的公共交通机构。

“San José has always believed innovation should make everyday life work better,” said San José Mayor Matt Mahan. “This partnership does exactly that by using new technology to strengthen public transit, not replace it, making regional travel more seamless and giving people more ways to get where they need to go.”

圣何塞市长 Matt Mahan 表示：“圣何塞一直坚信创新应让日常生活变得更美好。此次合作正是通过利用新技术来加强而非取代公共交通，使区域出行更加顺畅，并为人们前往目的地提供了更多选择。”

To participate, riders will link their Visa card in the Waymo app. When riders in the SF Bay Area use their Visa card to take a Waymo trip and public transit within 2 hours of each other, we will automatically issue $2.85 in Waymo Cash, which is the cost of a bus fare in San Francisco. Alongside the launch of our transit rewards program, we’re also announcing a partnership with Caltrain, which accepts tap-to-pay. Waymo will lease 40 dedicated Caltrain station parking spaces to better serve transit riders with staged vehicles. This is a model we hope to replicate with additional transit agencies, ultimately enabling more seamless connections between Waymo’s service and public transit.

参与方式很简单：乘客只需在 Waymo App 中绑定 Visa 卡。当旧金山湾区的乘客在 2 小时内分别使用 Visa 卡乘坐 Waymo 和公共交通工具时，我们将自动发放 2.85 美元的 Waymo Cash，这相当于旧金山的一张公交车票费用。在推出奖励计划的同时，我们还宣布与支持非接触式支付的加州列车（Caltrain）达成合作。Waymo 将租赁 40 个加州列车站的专用停车位，以便通过预置车辆更好地服务公共交通乘客。我们希望将这一模式推广到更多交通机构，最终实现 Waymo 服务与公共交通之间更无缝的连接。

This launch is the next step toward making our vision of shared mobility a reality. By taking the learnings from our transit credit pilot programs in San Francisco and Los Angeles, adding Waymo’s service to the LA Metro Mobility Wallet program, and kicking off a strategic microtransit partnership with Via in Chandler, AZ, we’ve been steadily learning what it takes to offer a successful transit integration product and are pleased to formally launch transit rewards.

此次发布是我们实现共享出行愿景的又一重要步骤。通过汲取我们在旧金山和洛杉矶公共交通信用试点项目的经验，将 Waymo 服务纳入洛杉矶地铁（LA Metro）的“出行钱包”（Mobility Wallet）计划，并与 Via 在亚利桑那州钱德勒市启动战略性微型交通合作，我们不断探索如何提供成功的交通整合产品，并很高兴能正式推出这项公共交通奖励计划。

“Shared mobility is a team effort, and our autonomous ride-hailing service helps expand clean transportation options for everyone,” said Adam Lenz, Head of Sustainability & Environment at Waymo. “We’re thrilled to partner with local transit agencies to fill multimodal gaps and make daily commutes easier through our new transit rewards program.”

Waymo 可持续发展与环境负责人 Adam Lenz 表示：“共享出行是一项团队协作，我们的自动驾驶网约车服务有助于为每个人扩展清洁交通选择。我们很高兴能与当地交通机构合作，填补多模式出行的空白，并通过我们新的奖励计划让日常通勤变得更加轻松。”

Our goal is to expand this transit rewards program and transit agency partnerships to more cities over time, ultimately making shared, all-electric transportation more accessible and affordable for everyone.

我们的目标是随着时间的推移，将这一奖励计划和交通机构合作伙伴关系扩展到更多城市，最终让共享的纯电动交通方式对每个人来说都更加触手可及且经济实惠。