FareONE is smart payment solution for bus, train or other cashless ticketing application.

To get the ride in the bus, street car, subway, ferry or to use other means of mass transportation you have to have money or proper ticket in your pocket. Everybody using mass transportation system knows frustrations of lineups, lost tickets, expired tickets, no enough change in the pocket, hustle when trying to pay to the driver, get change back, move forward...

Answer to the most of above troubles is ticket that you can use multiple times, re-charge it with value when needed and just re-use it again and again. If you could use same card with stored value in other places that would be even better! Many cities around the world switched to tickets like that and enjoy many benefits of fare system. Millions of passengers using such systems every day are proof of acceptance and can verify how practical that actually is.

Only one kind of fare ticket can do that and much more. It is a smart card. It usually comes in form of the contact or contactless plastic card with chip inside. Smart chip provides benefits of secure load of the value, secure transactions, easiness and speed of electronic transactions. Here is a short list of benefits but not really limited to:

•  Smart cards are small, they fit everybody's pocket.
•  Smart cards are very secure, can't be read, copied, manipulated with, counterfeited, duplicated.
•  Smart card protect privacy where needed.
•  Smart cards are re-writable and can be recharged thousands of times.
•  Smart card can contain digital log with location, date, time, person's stamp to record every transaction.
•  Smart card can contain money value in electronic form, kind of small ePurse system.
•  Smart card can contain weekly pass, monthly pass or simply ticket that expires by certain date.
•  Smart card can carry your advertising message or you can sell that space to somebody else.
•  Same fare card could potentially be used in other means of transport including a taxi, ferry, street cars...
•  Same card could be combined with multiple applications that do not interfere with each other.
•  Payment transactions with smart cards are fast promoting flow of passengers.
•  Passenger can pay for whole his party if system is setup to do so.
•  Pocket reader could be used to find out about available balance on the card.
•  Smart card fare solution could be combined with regular ePurse system where you can use your card to pay for anything at participating merchants
•  Existing ePurse solutions can be extended to payments for fares
•  Smart card fare system eliminates cash from the payment systems.
•  Smart card fare systems remove burden of handling cash by drivers. It reduces crime.
•  Smart card fare system eliminates internal theft.
•  Smart card fare system eliminates almost all paperwork from the system by making all transactions electronic.
•  Smart card fare system support offline transactions and portable SC readers.
•  It gives bus company management fast, useful data and statistics that can be analyzed at any time.
•  Fare validators can, on demand, log all rides with time and date stamped for control and statistical purposes.
•  It is possible easier then ever to determine profitability, load, peak hours traffic for particular routes.
•  Central data base can provide unprecedented picture of the overall business situation for the transportation company
•  When we say bus company it can mean 50 or 500 buses but all this applies to small operators as well with 2-3 buses only.
•  Numerous benefits to bus company: smaller number of people handling money, digital stamp for those doing it, electronic processing, streamlined administrative data, reduced leakage, better overall control.
•  And don't forget one of the biggest advantages, transportation company gets money in advance long before actual services are rendered.
•   Much more...

Plans are that in near future every passenger will have smart fare ticket in the pocket. Doesn't matter how big or small transportation company is, on which geographic area it is situated, currency used, profile of passengers...everybody would enjoy benefits of the smart card fare system.

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THE CONCEPT

Usage of the system is quite simple:

PASSENGER - will buy a smart card ticket at ticketing office or wherever transportation company sells the tickets. Same card can be re-charged thousands of times by adding a value to the ticket. Card can be contact type or contactless type.

If flat fee system is used it can be number of rides, simply amount paid in advance or in case of the monthly pass it can be expiry date. Since smart card systems support portable SC (Smart Card) devices and offline transactions it is possible to run re-charge office out of the pocket using portable SC terminal.

Passenger enters the bus at door #1 (driver's position), taps a smart ticket to the terminal (contactless cards). Terminal processes the card, verifies it, charges a predetermined amount or checks against expiry date, beeps to confirm the fare and that's it. It takes about second for all that. Fare is logged into internal log and process can be repeated again.

DRIVER / CONDUCTOR- uses ruggedized, handheld portable computer to handle passenger's smart tickets. In the beginning of working shift driver takes first available terminal waiting in charger. Before starting using a terminal driver logs in using his personal SAM card. From that moment terminal is set for that specific driver, time and date, route, direction, default price to be charged to the passenge's smart tickets and price tables ready to be used. At bus stop driver holds his terminal so incoming travellers can easily tap the top of the terminal where RFID readers is located. Very important to note is that terminal is ruggedized, industrial type equipped with heavy duty battery to work whole day, every day for years to come!

Terminal is really top of the line handheld computer equipped with user friendly, touch screen, Windows CE or Windows Mobile OS programmed with FareONE application. As passenger's tickets are being charged terminal makes log entries and calculations in the background. Statistical data are later downloaded into FareONE backoffice application and could be analyzed by management.

OWNER / OPERATOR'S MANAGEMENT- owner of the system is effectively operating it from single PC. Operator can have mutiple remote sales offices where smart tickets shall be sold to passengers, re-charged with more money (rides), set to have expiry date or simply created from blank, pre-printed smart cards. Same smart tickets pre-loaded with certain value could be distributed in variety stores or any kind of independent sales storefronts, even by person standing on the street corner or bus stop.

Operator running FareONE Backoffice edition is able to control issuance of driver's SAM cards, outflow of cards, incoming performance data, remote offices, re-sellers, controllers, conductors and much more. Easy to use Windows based software does administrative tasks easily eliminating errors, saving time and money in every day operations. Handling cash is taken away from everybody and trusted to very few people where transactions are controlled by the software.

There are many ways operator can organize sales and make money with smart ticketing system. Initial system investment recovery is quick and savings created are long term. Almost every operator having his drivers or conductors handling cash is losing money in process! Some of the operators are hit so hard and on consistent bases that they don't survive and have to seize operations. Some prospects inquiring about FareONE system measured daily loss at 60%-70% level! Don't that let happen to you and your transportation company! Nobody can sustain that kind of opeartions and stay in business. Only way to prevent it is go full cashless. FareONE is true smart cashless solution!  

FareONE SMART TICKETING SOLUTIONS HARDWARE

PORTABLE BUS / TRAIN / FERRY TICKETING

> ADVANTAGES

RUGGEDIZED PORTABLE COMPUTER, TYPICAL COST: $1699.00

PSION Workabout Pro smart ruggedized computer terminal Workabout see thru view Terminal shown with different views PSION Workabout in French trains, SNCF, 11500 units in use! FareONE demo login screen FareONE demo card re-charge screen, if enabled it is possible to update smart ticket anywhere, on the street, bus stop ... This particular FareONE smart ticket is QuickPass since checkmark says that it has expiry date. Also, amount of 123.00 currency (any) was just added to total balance of 145.00 currency FareONE demo main charge ticket screen Fare = from drop down menu driver selects distance (from - to) and thus price Card No = Mifare card serial number pops up here Expiry = IF card is based on QuickPass with expiry date terminal will evaluate that date first. It will not touch balance of the card if date is valid Balance = this much money is found on the passenger's card Transfer = this is second condition software is checking. IF transfer is allowed (flag in the software) and IF time is within transfer time card is OK, balance is not charged New balance = after smart card is charged this is new balance Big red 1 = default number of tickets that will be charged. If passenger comes in with family and system allows multiple tickets to be charged bus driver can temporarily change this to 2-3-4-5 whatever is number of people traveling with main card holder (example: you entered bus with your children) This is a control smart ticket read. Each smart ticket has a log with last 5 or 10 rides logged in. Driver or bus controller can read passenger's card and see details with route, date, time, amount, bus ID and driver ID in control screen. This read does NOT affect balance of the smart ticket. This is just to control the ticket and also if passenger wants to know how much balance is left in the ticket. Utility menu screen has different options and settings available. Some of them are not accessible by the driver.

• Every software you see here can be modified to do exactly what you want it to do for you (extra fees may apply).
• Software that you don't see can be custom made for your application. Click HERE for more info!
• Most of the smart cards you get will be printed in full color raising value of services you provide.