Smart card technology is at the heart of a new car sharing program for the University of South Florida. The school is joining other colleges across the country in providing communal transportation. The WeCar program provides rental cars for short trips at hourly rates.
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The Pittsburgh Port Authority is beginning tests of their new smart card fare system. The pilot program uses 10 Port Authority buses that have been outfitted with new fare collection boxes equipped to handle the new smart card technology. A dozen Port Authority employees were selected at random to participate in the new smart card tests running through August.
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Students at Salt Lake Community College are seeing the benefits of their student ID system. Many services are available to them when they flash their OneCard. Upon registration, each student is issued their ID card with their name, picture, and student ID number printed on the card.
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Smart card technology is at the heart of a new collaborative transit system in Puget Sound. The Sound Transit line is opening later this month with 12 new stations. A station at the airport is opening later this year. The new ORCA smart card allows riders to load money onto their cards and keep track of their balances through an online system.
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Taking transit ticketing technology one step further, South Korea’s Seoul subway system is introducing the world’s first RFID based program for single journey reusable ticketing. The new smart card system will serve a city of over 10 million people and replace paper tickets for passengers that were previously paying with cash.
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Utah public transit riders are being introduced to a new fare system. The Utah Transit Authority is putting a new smart card system in place after completing tests on the electronic fare collection system. Electronic readers are positioned at the entrances to buses, train cars and light rail cars. The new smart cards are passed over the reader, eliminating the need for cash.
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