The Hints Club

With electrical engineering schooling from Tel Aviv University in Israel under his belt, Amos Tamam landed in America ready to use his knowledge. In the early ’80s, it was the taxicab industry that provided him his first opportunity. Today, that same industry continues to drive his ideas and efforts.

Amos Tamam focuses on aiding taxi fleet owners maneuver efficiently and safely through adapting innovative technologies. Years of experience in the taxi industry led him to create a system for handling credit cards in cabs utilizing wireless technology. This gives fleet owners the ability to offer a different payment option to their customers. This technology became part of a program to reduce crime against taxi drivers in New York City. It enables drivers to carry less cash in their cabs. Today, fleet owners in the city, as well as in Philadelphia are using this system.

As CEO of Verifone Transportation Systems, Inc., Amos Tamam is currently working on adding his innovations to taxi fleets and their customers in other U.S. cities. He devised Verifone Transportation System, Inc, as a joint venture between Taxitronic, Inc. and Verifone Holdings, Inc. Verifone provides mobile payment and transportation automation solutions. Their solutions deliver mobile payment, navigation, dispatch, text messaging, and real-time information delivery capabilities to taxi fleets.

Amos Tamam’s career began in New York City where he worked on taxis in a fleet garage. He studied repair, the inner workings of taximeters, as well as fleet and fuel management as applies to taxis. He parlayed his academic training in electrical engineering and hands-on experience to the development of the technology and systems that enable taxi fleets to accept credit card payments. He also led the development of a device that combines voice reminder, emergency light, pulse divider, roof light, signal lights, relay and taximeter connection on one circuit board.

Through Verifone Transportation Systems, Inc. Amos Tamam continues his technological innovations. The Company is the first manufacturer to initiate and deliver the first integrated, taximeter based mobile card processing system. They are not resting on their laurels, as they continually develop methods to serve their taxi fleet customers better.

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