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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.
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