U.S. transit agencies pursue a standard for transit fare collection through UTFS effort
Seeking a uniform transit fare standard–that’s open source, no less–is a yeoman’s job, but one that a task force of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has willingly undertaken. Someday, all transportation agencies may have the ability to have interoperable regional smart card systems. The future could be one in which a single smart card could be used in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and an array of urban areas in between.
Appropriately named the Universal Transit Farecard Standards Task Force (UTFS) it is funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation and some APTA members, said UTFS Chairman Tom Parker, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), San Francisco, Calif.
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