TECHNO-BUSES * USA - UTA 'tapping' into high-tech fare collection
Salt Lake City,UT,USA -The Deseret News, by Laura Hancock -29 Dec 2008: -- Beginning Thursday, the Utah Transit Authority will collect fares electronically using new readers installed on its 520 buses and 35 TRAX and FrontRunner rail platforms... The readers for the system, which cost $10 million to install, can deduct fares from credit cards with contactless chip technologies. The readers can also validate prepaid cards such as student identification cards and electronic passes, said Jerry Carpenter, UTA public relations specialist... (Photo by Jeffrey D. Allred/Deseret News - UTA is going to start using an electronic fare-collection system in which riders will "tap on" when they board a bus or train, and the fare will be charged)Labels: techno buses
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