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

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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

Questions?

John McGee

jmcgee@septa.org

Jerry Kane

jkane@septa.org