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Equipment Package: Remote Transit Fare Management

Description: This equipment package provides the capability for the traveler to use a common fare medium for transit fares, tolls, and/or parking lot charges. It accepts a service request and means of payment, verifies eligibility, calculates the amount due, collects payment, and identifies payment problems. This equipment package may be implemented using a traveler card reader in a kiosk that includes a communications interface to the financial infrastructure to support payment collection and reconciliation.
Included In: KVRTA Transit Kiosks
Local Transit Kiosks
PanTran Transit Kiosks
Transit Transfer Centers
West Virginia Smartcard Kiosks
Functional Requirements 1 - The public interface for travelers shall accept and process current transit passenger fare collection information.
2 - The public interface for travelers shall calculate a fare based on the origin and destination provided by the traveler, in conjunction with transit routing, transit fare category, and transit user history.
3 - The public interface for travelers shall provide an interface to a transit user traveler card in support of payment for transit fares, tolls, and/or parking lot charges. The stored credit value data from the card shall be collected and updated based on the fare or other charges, or the credit identity shall be collected.
4 - The public interface for travelers shall provide information to the center for financial authorization and transaction processing.
5 - The public interface for travelers shall provide an image of all travelers purchasing rides or services to be used for violation processing.
6 - The public interface for travelers shall determine the routing based on the traveler's destination and the location of the closest transit stop from which a route request is being made.
7 - The public interface for travelers shall create passenger loading and fare statistics data based upon data collected at a transit stop.
8 - The public interface for travelers shall present information to the traveler in a form suitable for travelers with physical disabilities.

Last updated: 11-22-06