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29 Case Examples To provide better understanding of opportunities and challenges and to demonstrate a variety of approaches to multimodal payment convergence, the synthesis team selected case examples from U.S. and international agencies.
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30 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration currently feel that existing smart card systems are a barrier to integration with emerging technologies, especially in relation to convergence with new mobility service providers. In particular, the cost of designing, procuring, implementing, and maintaining a new fare collection system can be significant.
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Case Examples 31 different app for each media type. Fare validation for smart cards is done by tapping the cards on validation devices installed on all fixed-route buses and at all rail stations.
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32 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration for an alternative fare payment method and identified mobile applications as a potential solution to match its needs. To ensure accessibility for all transit users, RTD first researched the smartphone penetration in its service area, which was found to be high.
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Case Examples 33 system developed by Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc., and maintained jointly by Cubic and LA Metro. When LA Metro started to consider including new mobility service providers -- such as bike sharing or ride hailing -- on its system, it found that it needed to update its existing TAP card system with account-based ticketing capabilities.
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34 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration Department of Transportation, however, has published a Mobility Data Specification that provides API and data standards for dockless bike sharing, electric scooters, and shared ride providers. LA Metro invested heavily in understanding how to address challenges related to equity and access to its TAP system.
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Case Examples 35 4.3 Case Example 3: Port Authority of Allegheny County Port Authority was created in 1956. In 1959, the Pennsylvania Legislature authorized Port Authority to acquire 33 private transit carriers.
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36 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration 4.3.2 Experience with Payment Convergence Healthy Ride is Pittsburgh's docked public bike sharing system, operated by Pittsburgh Bike Share, a nonprofit organization. The Healthy Ride system was launched in 2015 and by 2018 operated a fleet of 700 bicycles and 175 stations.
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Case Examples 37 4.4.1 Fare Collection System The Gateway Card project was started in 2010 with the award of a contract to develop and maintain a contactless smart card system for MetroLink and MetroBus. The winning supplier had already supplied the ticket vending machines and validators for Metrolink.
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38 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration 2. The combination of dissatisfaction with a legacy ticketing system and large smartphone penetration can increase the likelihood that the agency will choose a mobile ticketing solution instead of deploying a new, complex ticketing system to achieve payment convergence.
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Case Examples 39 card providers such as NS (bike sharing, bike parking, car sharing, and parking) across the Netherlands.
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40 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration enables all types of service providers -- including public transit operators and business card providers -- to use the chip number for easy access to nontransit services that do not implement the OV-chipkaart system. Early implementations of the business card used a magnetic stripe and a barcode on the card to allow services such as off-street parking; however, after this ID-link service was introduced by Translink, all nontransit usage migrated to using the contactless chip ID.
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Case Examples 41 throughout Belgium. The City of Antwerp coordinates with these two public transportation providers but does not operate any public transit.
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42 Multimodal Fare Payment Integration 4.6.3 Future Development Plans The City of Antwerp has a dedicated budget to encourage citizens to participate in new mobility services and MaaS. Because the concept of MaaS is not yet mature enough to be launched in a big way, however, the City of Antwerp would rather support testing of new mobility and the MaaS applications first.
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