Transport for London (TfL) launched contactless payments in London last week, and more than one million journeys have now been made using it since then.

There has been a significant rise in bus journeys using contactless payment, with the highest being 100,000 journeys in a day. The total number of journeys on Tube and Rail services in London has now reached over 375,000 and the total number of journeys on London Buses and Trams since contactless payments was launched across transport in London last week is now over 785,000.

There have been over 250,000 instances per day of customers touching a contactless payment card or device on readers across transport in London.

Shashi Verma, TfL's Director of Customer Experience, said: “It is really encouraging to see over one million contactless journeys on transport across London in the first week. We want travelling in London to be as easy and convenient for our customers as possible and contactless is one of the steps we have taken to make that happen.”

Contactless payments can be made for travel on Tube, tram, London Overground, London Buses, DLR, and National Rail services.