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Enhancements in
Fare Collection
Moving toward the future and increasing
the ease at which passengers
are able to book and execute
their trips, the use of apps is an
aspect that agencies are steadily increasing.
Nat Parker, moovel CEO,
said a sum total of just over 2 million
local public transport tickets
were sold monthly through moovel’s
technology throughout 2017.
“Early in 2017 we released
a new product that we call Fare
Connect, which is essentially a
hardware-agnostic solution for
fare validation. Where you have
a system where there is a validator
on the bus or a validator in a turnstile,
the old way of doing business
was that you hire a system
integrator who does the soft ware
and the hardware in what is admittedly
a closed-loop proprietary
cycle,” said Parker. “We saw an opportunity
to break that apart and
give agencies much more choice
in terms of their procurement of
technology. So with Fare Connect,
our mobile validation system,
ticketing can reside on any piece
of third-party hardware and speak
to our back offi ce.”
Moovel has also formed a
partnership with Google, Init
and TriMet releasing a virtual
transit card within Android Pay.
“Our core business is as a
system integrator and to provide
the back-end of the system,” said
Th omas Schaich, senior systems
engineer, INIT Innovations in
Transportation Inc. “Th is is used
for apps like moovel. Th e major
benefi t for the agencies is that
they can select whichever app;
all they need to do is make sure
the app integrates into their API.
“Th ey add them and they can
replace them. Our mission is just to
make it easier to use public transit.”
Transit recently began working
with Masabi to enhance its off erings.
“We’ve been working with
them for a while in a few diff erent
cities,” said Sion. “Masabi
does mobile payments and our
part is focused on everything
on the customer information
side — including real-time and
multimodal information. Th eir
app links over to our app for customer
information. Th ey already
had some integration, but what
we announced in October 2017
was that Masabi had developed
so that riders will be able to purchase
their fare passes directly
through us without leaving our
app. One of the advantages is that
we have millions of people using
our app every month across the
U.S. and Canada and they’re already
using it to get around and
now they can also buy a ticket.”
Ensuring Data
Remains Secure
With the increased use of technology
comes the concern of the
security of the transmitted data.
Within Transit’s app, the
company does not take personal
information from those who use
it. Transit sends encrypted information
to its servers, which allows
the agencies to see who is using
the diff erent modes of transportation
within their system.
“Within the app it is relatively
secure. What we do on the OS
side is secure the user data. So
if some information was hacked,
that information is not usable,”
explained Guillaume Campagna,
Transit’s chief technical offi cer.
“We check for security updates
and things of that sort. We do
not receive any personal information.
We don’t have their credit
card, phone number or their
email. Th e information that we
have is where people are planning
trips throughout the city,
but it is not linked to a name.”
THE TRANSIT’S
app features
trip-planning.
WITH THE Transit
app, users are
able to see all
nearby transit
options.
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