Regional SmarTrip Fare Payment Clearinghouse (Inventory Element)
Interconnects -- Flows -- Entities -- Market Packages -- Functional Area
Status: Existing
Definition:
This element represents an existing back office environment for housing electronic fare payment information for the VA/DC/MD areas. Currently, this element represents the smart card clearinghouse for WMATA. However, plans exist to move towards a regional clearinghouse involving local transit agencies in Northern Virginia.
Stakeholder: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
Systems Interconnected with Regional SmarTrip Fare Payment Clearinghouse:
Information Flow Diagrams which include Regional SmarTrip Fare Payment Clearinghouse:
- None
Information Flows to/from the Regional SmarTrip Fare Payment Clearinghouse
National ITS Architecture Subsystems mapped to the Regional SmarTrip Fare Payment Clearinghouse:
National ITS Architecture Market Packages associated with Regional SmarTrip Fare Payment Clearinghouse:
APTS4 - Transit Passenger and Fare Management
National ITS Architecture Functional Area associated with Regional SmarTrip Fare Payment Clearinghouse:
- Transit Center Fare and Load - Management of fare collection at the center - includes setting and distributing fare information, central processing of fares for transit as well as other ITS services, links to financial institutions and enforcement agencies.
- Transit Data Collection - Collection and storage of transit management data. For use by operations personnel or data archives in the region.
Detailed "SHALL" statements can be found in the Turbo Database.