Transit Center Fare Management
'Transit Center Fare Management' manages fare collection and passenger load management at the transit center. It provides the back office functions that support transit fare collection, supporting payment reconciliation with links to financial institutions and enforcement agencies for fare violations. It collects data required to determine accurate ridership levels, establish fares, and distribute fare information. It loads fare data into the vehicle prior to the beginning of normal operations and unloads fare collection data from the vehicle at the close out of normal operations.
- The center shall provide transit fare information to traveler information providers upon request.
- 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 support the payment of transit fare transactions using data provided by the traveler cards / payment instruments.
- The center shall process the financial requests from the transit vehicles or roadside and manage an interface to a Financial Institution.
- 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 manage the actual value of transit fares for each segment of each regular transit route, including the transmission of the information 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 be capable of establishing emergency fare structures to override all other fares during disasters, states of emergency, or evacuations.