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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"fare collection"”.
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Contactless prepaid and bankcards in transit fare collection systems
… want to use contactless bankcards for transit fare payments. This thesis presents contactless prepaid cards as a potential fare payment option to meet the needs of these riders, and assesses customer attitudes toward contactless prepaid cards and bankcards. Two case studies are presented of …
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Analysis of the 2012 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority fare increase using automated fare collection data
Transit agencies commonly increase fares to raise revenue, reduce service to lower costs, or combine the two strategies. Fare increases impact specific subsets of transit users in different ways based on their demographics and the transit system fare structure. Automated fare collection (AFC) …
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An Analysis of Fare Collection Costs on Heavy Rail and Bus Systems in the U.S.
… an effort is made to analyze the costs of fare collection on heavy rail and motorbus systems in the U.S. Since existing ticketing and fare collection (TFC) systems are major elements of transit infrastructure and there are several new alternative TFC technologies available on the market, …
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The value of automated fare collection data for transit planning : an example of rail transit OD matrix estimation
… toolbox the data obtained from new Automated Fare Collection (AFC) technologies. By adding this dataset, transit agencies can boost their analytical capabilities and deal with some planning questions that they previously could not easily address. In fact, while with surveys and manual counts …
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Transition to smart card technology : how transit operators can encourage the take-up of smart card technology
… for transit agencies to switch from traditional fare collection systems to smart cards. More transit agencies today are investing in smart card technology as part of their new automated fare collection (AFC) systems. Although the benefits of switching to smart card systems have been …
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Moving from conventional bus service towards bus rapid transit : establishing priorities
… identified as the right-of-way, stops, vehicles, fare collection system, signal priority system, and automated vehicle location (AVL) system. The third task focused on developing a prioritization process to understand the variables that would lead to achieve the first two key attributes. All …
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Passenger-to-train assignment model based on automated data
… passengers to individual trains using: (i) fare transaction records from Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) system and (ii) the train tracking data from Automatic Train Regulation (ATR) system. The proposed Passenger-to-Train Assignment Model (PTAM) can provide a better understanding of …
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Bus passenger Origin-Destination Matrix estimation using Automated Data Collection systems
Automatic Data Collection (ADC systems can enhance the ability of transit agencies to obtain useful planning information that was previously too expensive to obtain. This thesis documents the development of an algorithm to estimate a Bus Passenger Trip Origin-Destination Matrix (OD Matrix) based on …
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Intermodal passenger flows on London's public transport network : automated inference of full passenger journeys using fare-transaction and vehicle-location data
… travel patterns. While ticket gates and bus fareboxes yield counts of passenger activity in specific stations and vehicles, the relationships between these transactions-the origins, interchanges, and destinations of individual passengers-have typically been acquired only through costly and …
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Rail transit OD matrix estimation and journey time reliability metrics using automated fare data
The availability of automatic fare collection (AFC) data greatly enhances a transit planner's ability to understand and characterize passenger travel demands which have traditionally been estimated by manual surveys handed out to passengers at stations or on board vehicles. The AFC data also …
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Analysis of future ticketing scenarios for transport for London
… like replacing cash, deployment of a richer fare structure and minimizing queuing times. Although smart card ticketing systems have existed for several years now, the full potential of the developments in information technology have yet to be leveraged in terms of cost effectiveness and …
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Service reliability measurement framework using smart card data : application to the London Underground
… With the emergence of data from automated fare media, it becomes possible under certain conditions to directly observe travel times experienced by passengers and obtain improved estimates of the reliability of transit service. A framework is developed to estimate service reliability on …
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Simulating service reliability of a high frequency bus route using automatically collected data
… Passenger Counting (APC), and Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) systems and is calibrated to represent route 63, a key bus route in the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) network The simulation model is first used to conduct a sensitivity analysis of the factors influencing reliability, such …
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Evaluation of bus priority strategies for BRT operations
… such as exclusive bus lanes, off-vehicle fare collection, high quality vehicles and stations, signal priority, among others. Transit Signal Priority (TSP) is frequently seen as an option to improve performance of public transportation systems at the operational level. TSP is an operational …
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Understanding transit travel behavior : value added by smart cards
… Thanks to the advent of automated data collection including smart cards, each customer transaction can now be recorded, providing a far more accurate, detailed and continuous stream of data for travel behavior analysis than the data previously available only from conventional travel …
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Quantifying the current and future impacts of the MBTA Corporate Pass Program
… ago in an attempt to move away from inefficient fare collection methods while providing an avenue for employers to contribute to their employees' transit commutes and increase transit ridership generally. With these intentions in mind, this thesis aims to analyze the MBTA's employer pass program, …
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Using automatically collected data for bus service and operations planning
… now fulfill these tasks by using automated data collection systems (ADCS), including Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), Automatic Passenger Counters (APC), and Automated Fare Collection (AFC) systems. ADCS enable service planners to make more informed decisions due to the larger, more ubiquitous, …
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Measuring journey time reliability in London using automated data collection systems
… systems. The rapid spread of Automated Data Collection Systems, such as Automated Fare Collection (AFC) and Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), provides new sources of information that can be used to measure and assess service reliability. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a set …
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Using automatically collected data to improve the bus service planning process
… Passenger Counters (APC), and Automated Fare Collection (AFC), enable transit agencies to (1) collect larger and more detailed sets of performance data, (2) measure transit performance more from the perspective of customers, and (3) conduct more systematic service evaluation processes. …
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