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Posted by JAzumah on Mon Nov 2 15:51:58 2009, in response to Re: NJT's New fare collection system {UPDATE}, posted by GOLD_12th on Mon Nov 2 13:51:45 2009. "WRONG. RFID is widely used right now in many different forms."Are there more than 10 transit systems worldwide using RFID (smartcard) technology? I do not believe that is the case. We have had electric cars since the early 1900s, but we have yet to produce a financially viable one. Technology and application viability are two different things. You can't just say RFID is all over the place so therefore it will work in a transit application for our region. The hardware is usually the easy part. "If its a brutal process then Why is Bee Line, PATH, Airtrain using the MetroCard fare media. Those agency have made arrangements with MTA to cover a portion of the loss revenue. Its not that complex." The Bee-Line is receiving a subsidy specifically to accept MetroCard. I believe it is $7M per year. This is strictly to offset the transaction fees. PATH will probably replace its own card system with the MetroCard in the future. It is expensive to build and maintain infrastructure to handle a small volume of cards when it is simply easier to piggyback on the MTA's system. PATH sees this as cost reduction. Airtrain is $5 a pop to go a very short distance. They have enough profit to offset the fees. I was talking to the MTA about placing MetroCard on the 144 at one point. The X23/X24 bid also had information on it. I'm not shooting in the dark. |
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