Public Transportation

Public Transportation project sponsors may choose to consider the following functions when defining functional requirements for a specific project.  A typical project is able to:

• monitor the locations of all transit vehicles within its network.
• determine adherence of transit vehicles to their assigned schedules.
• provide transit operational data (both transit facility and amenity) to traveler information service providers.
• collect passenger loading and fare statistics data.
• provide transit fare information to other centers, including traveler information providers upon request.
• manage, administer, and update a single transit fare collection system for multiple transit agencies providing transit fare products and value useable on all participating transit agency vehicles/systems.
• provide central clearinghouse for processing and verifying transit fare transactions electronically from participating transit agencies.
• communicate with TransLink field equipment to receive and transmit data
• support non-transit connections to fare collection system such as parking and banking/credit facilities.
• track transit vehicle and transmit location to dispatch and message signs.
• support two-way voice communication between the transit vehicle driver and a facility; two-way data communication between the transit vehicles and a facility; and transmission of sensor data from the transit vehicles to a facility. 
• request signal priority from roadside equipment, as appropriate
• provide the capability to expand real-time transit monitoring and data collection and dissemination.