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Terminology
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Virtual Transit Card
Commuters in the Portland-Vancouver
Metropolitan Area can use a mobile wallet or any
contactless bank card to tap and ride on TriMet,
C-TRAN and the Portland Streetcar.
INIT’s MOBILEvario powers the account-based,
open payment system and manages and processes
fares in real-time, recognizes and processes revenue
sharing, as well as manages accounts and
automates reconciliations for all three agencies.
INIT developed the system using open architecture
APIs so other partners could be easily incorporated.
TriMet partnered with Google to make the Hop
Fastpass the first virtual transit card available in
Android Pay. Beta testing started in December, giving
a select group of testers the opportunity to load
a virtual Hop card in Android Pay, allowing them to
tap their phones to pay their fares.
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CREATING AN
INTEGRATED JOURNEY
The Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation
Authority recently awarded
a contract to Cubic
Transportation Systems to
deliver an integrated mobile
app in support of the TAP
regional contactless fare system.
TAP links 24 transit agencies
in the Los Angeles region.
The TAP account management
will be integrated with
Metro’s taptogo.net website,
allowing users to add
to their TAP card, as well as
other services from a single,
regional account, including
bike, ride, or car share, and
parking, which can be booked
as part of an integrated journey
plan from the app.
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API: Application
Programming Interface –
An interface that allows
software programs to
interact with each other.
SDK: Software
Development Kits – SDK is
a set of tools that can be
used to develop software
applications targeting
a specific platform.
More often than not,
an SDK contains an API.
APIs are built to allow
communication between
applications; SDKs are
kits that allow developers
to create systems and
develop applications.
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