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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"fare media"”.
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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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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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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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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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Understanding transit travel behavior : value added by smart cards
… being generated by systems such as Automated Fare Collection (AFC), Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) and fare media in the form of smart cards, focusing on the Chicago Transit Authority and its smart card known as the Chicago Card. The processing of this data allows insights on transit user's …
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Understanding bus passenger crowding through origin destination inference
… (accounting for those passengers not using smart fare media) for approximately 90% of MBTA bus trips. Comparisons of ODX and Automatic Passenger Counter (APC) load estimates show that while there is some inherent variability in the ODX derived estimates, many vehicle trips have similar estimates. …
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Integration of public transportation systems : the case of Gipuzkoa, Spain
… two specific cases of integration are analyzed: fare integration between interurban and urban bus services in Donostia-San Sebastian and connectivity improvements between rail and bus services. The first case is analyzed quantitatively in great detail, given the availability of smartcard data …