NOACA Regional ITS Architecture

GCRTA Passenger Management System

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Description

System that provides fare reconciliation between peer agencies using a common travel card.

Status

Planned

Timeframe

Short-Term Priority

Geographic Scope

Service Scope

Cost - $635,700; Operational & Maintenance Costs (per year) - $60,000.

Stakeholders

Akron METRO Regional Transit Authority

Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA)

Laketran

Inventory

Financial Institutions

GCRTA Administration

Laketran Operations Center

METRO Administration

Regional Smart Card Reconciliation Network

Services

APTS04-2 - Transit Fare Collection Management - Regional Fare Reconciliation

Functional Areas

Transit Center Fare Management

• The center shall exchange fare and load information with other transit management centers, including potential Centralized Payments facilities.
• The center shall process the financial requests from the transit vehicles or roadside and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.
• The center shall support the payment of transit fare transactions using data provided by the traveler cards / payment instruments.

Interfaces

Source	Architecture Flows	Destination
Financial Institutions	transaction status	GCRTA Administration
Financial Institutions	transaction status	Laketran Operations Center
GCRTA Administration	payment request	Financial Institutions
GCRTA Administration	transit fare coordination	Regional Smart Card Reconciliation Network
Laketran Operations Center	payment request	Financial Institutions
Laketran Operations Center	transit fare coordination	Regional Smart Card Reconciliation Network
METRO Administration	transit fare coordination	Regional Smart Card Reconciliation Network
Regional Smart Card Reconciliation Network	transit fare coordination	GCRTA Administration
Regional Smart Card Reconciliation Network	transit fare coordination	Laketran Operations Center
Regional Smart Card Reconciliation Network	transit fare coordination	METRO Administration

Standards

SDO	Document ID	Title	Type
AASHTO/ITE/NEMA	View List	NTCIP Center-to-Center Standards Group	Group
APTA	APTA TCIP-S-001 3.0.0	Standard for Transit Communications Interface Profiles	Message/Data

Operational Concepts

Stakeholder	Roles and Responsibilities