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Transit Center Fare Management
- The center shall be capable of establishing emergency fare structures to override all other fares during disasters, states of emergency, or evacuations.
- The center shall collect data on fare payment violations and send the data, including images of the violator, to the appropriate enforcement agency.
- The center shall collect fare statistics data to implement variable and flexible fare structures.
- The center shall exchange fare and load information with other transit management centers, including potential Centralized Payments facilities.
- The center shall maintain a list of invalid traveler credit identities or bad tag lists that can be forwarded to transit vehicles and transit stops or stations.
- The center shall process requests for the advanced payment of tolls and parking lot charges as well as other non-transportation services, e.g. yellow-pages services.
- The center shall process requests for transit fares to be paid in advance.
- The center shall process the financial requests from the transit vehicles or roadside and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.
- The center shall provide transit fare information to other centers, including traveler information providers upon request.
- The center shall support the payment of transit fare transactions using data provided by the traveler cards / payment instruments.
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