INTRODUCING THE FUTURE OF SEPTA FARE COLLECTION INTRODUCING THE FUTURE OF SEPTA FARE COLLECTION Smart Card Alliance – Transportation Council Philadelphia, September 2012
INTRODUCING THE FUTURE
OF SEPTA FARE COLLECTION
INTRODUCING THE FUTURE
OF SEPTA FARE COLLECTION
Smart Card Alliance – Transportation Council
Philadelphia, September 2012
An electronic fare payment system that is:
Secure, reliable, and convenient
Easy to understand and purchase
Offers seamless travel across all SEPTA
services
Simple, straight-forward fare policies
Creating a Vision –
What Riders Want
• Any compliant form factor
• Whatever is in your pocket:
• Contactless credit and debit cards
• Building access ID cards
• School ID cards
• Government-issued benefit cards
• Cash
• SEPTA card
• Cell phones
NPT Accepts All Payment Forms
Fare Policy Considerations
• Research Customers Needs and Preferences
• Fare Policy Advisory Group for Guidance
• New Benefits for Calendar Period Passes
• Electronic tokens
• New transfer and zone policies
• RR Fare Collection
• Virtual ticketing
• Public input process
What will change?
New Ways to Purchase Fares:
•Vending machines
•Virtual purchases via phone, internet
•Auto-pay
•Extensive 3rd party purchase and reload network
•Contactless credit cards, mobile payment
Universal Fare Media:
•Same cards / payment forms on both RR and transit
•No more RR-only tickets
•No more transit-only tokens
•Freedom of choice of customers
•Electronic cards for disabled and seniors
Contract Award
•ACS Transport Solutions (Xerox)
•Design, build, install, maintain
•Robust back-end system, real-time
communications network, customer
support
•Unconstrained by proprietary technology
•License to leverage to neighboring
agencies and throughout Pennsylvania
•Notice To Proceed February, 2012
•Midway through design phase
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Sam Sulaiman
Equipment
Jerry Kane
Fares and Processing
John McGee
Chief Officer
Kevin O'Brien
Sr. Program Manager
Joe Reville
Systems
Communications
Jack Gill
Railroad
Installation
Tom Carl
Sub-El
Installation
NEW PAYMENT TECHNOLOGIES TEAMNEW PAYMENT TECHNOLOGIES TEAM
Jack Tepper
Contract
Administration
Al Outlaw
Legacy systems
Market East Station
New Fare Line at Concourse Level9
Suburban Station – West Concourse
30th Street Station
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Suburban Station
Gateway Stations