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... 18 Status of Payment Convergence in the United States Transit agencies have shown interest in multimodal payment convergence, and some agencies, although currently the exception, have already successfully achieved convergence with outside transportation providers. This synthesis report aims to document these early experiences, outcomes, lessons learned, and challenges, and to provide an up-to-date snapshot of the current status of payment convergence in the United States.
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... Long Beach Transit CA 0.8 25.3 83 19% x x x x x 4 x na General Information Transit Service Provided by the Agency Mobility Modes in the Area Status of EFPS Agency name St at e Se rv ic e ar ea po pu la ti on (M )
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... General Information Transit Service Provided by the Agency Mobility Modes in the Area Status of EFPS Agency name St at e Se rv ic e ar ea po pu la ti on (M )
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... Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation FL 2.49 89.5 584 16% x x x x x x x na 4 x na Regional Transportation District CO 2.9 98.1 662 21% x x x x x x x x 4 x X Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon OR 1.54 99.0 496 25% x x x x x x 4 x na Maryland Transit Administration MD 7.8 103.6 753 20% x x x x x x x 4 x na Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority GA 2 126.0 557 24% x x x x x x 4 na na Bay Area Rapid Transit CA 0.8 132.0 776 62% x x x x 4 x na San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority CA 0.9 226.2 847 23% x x x 4 x na Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority PA 3.8 324.0 1,326 34% x x x x x x 2 x na Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority DC 3.72 353.0 1,769 37% x x x x x x x 4 x na Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority MA 3.1 382.7 1,880 35% x x x x x x x x x 4 x na Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority CA 8.36 407.0 1,908 18% x x x x x x x x 4 x X Metropolitan Transportation Commissiona/b CA 7.4 547.0 na na x 4 x na Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinoisa/c IL na 613.5 2,076 40% x 3 na na Source: FTA 2018. Note: BRT = bus rapid transit; EFPS = electronic fare payment system; M = millions; na = not applicable.
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... 22 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration responsible for procuring and administering the regional fare payment system in their area and are therefore included in the synthesis. Twenty-seven agencies (75%)
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... Status of Payment Convergence in the United States 23 shared bikes, or scooters. Payment convergence also involves linking payment accounts for multiple modes, such as transit and tolling or transit and bike sharing accounts.
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... 24 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration or the regional transit agency, or said they are not sure (the initiator could be either the agency or the private party)
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... Status of Payment Convergence in the United States 25 about which procurement strategy they would use. Turnkey solutions and public–private partnerships were mentioned by multiple agencies.
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... 26 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration 3.3.5 Data Management Related to data management, agencies were asked to share the types of PII they expect to share or receive (or both) from private parties if payment convergence is implemented.
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... Status of Payment Convergence in the United States 27 The agencies also expressed concerns related to private sector MaaS providers' ability and willingness to offer services that benefit all, not just the commercially viable group of users. 3.3.7 Challenges and Concerns of Transit Agencies The survey respondents were asked to share what they expect to be the biggest challenges to building consensus with private parties and what topics need broad agreement for implementation of multimodal fare payment convergence with a private party.
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... 28 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration nontransit service in their region, and half of the agencies reported that all shared mobility service modes (bike sharing, car sharing, scooter sharing, and ride hailing) are available.

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