| Functional Area: On-board Paratransit Operations |
- The transit vehicle shall manage data input to sensor(s) on-board a transit vehicle to determine the vehicle's availability for use in demand responsive and flexible-route transit services based on identity, type, and passenger capacity.
- The transit vehicle shall receive the status of demand responsive or flexible-route transit schedules and passenger loading from the transit vehicle operator.
- The transit vehicle shall provide the transit vehicle operator instructions about the demand responsive or flexible-route transit schedule that has been confirmed from the center.
- The transit vehicle shall provide the capability to log passenger boardings and alightings and make passenger use data available to the transit center.
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| Functional Area: On-board Transit Fare Management |
- The transit vehicle shall read data from the traveler card / payment instrument presented by boarding passengers.
- The transit vehicle shall provide an image of all travelers which shall be used for violation processing of those who do not have a traveler card / payment instrument or whose transit fare transaction fails.
- The transit vehicle shall determine the traveler's travel routing based on the transit vehicle's current location and the traveler's destination.
- The transit vehicle shall calculate the traveler's fare based on the origin and destination provided by the traveler as well as factors such as the transit routing, transit fare category, traveler history, and route-specific information.
- The transit vehicle shall have access to the complete range of transit services (routes and schedules) that are available to the traveler.
- The transit vehicle shall provide a transit fare payment interface that is suitable for travelers with physical disabilities.
- The transit vehicle shall include a database on-board the transit vehicle for use in fare processing from which the fares for all possible trips within the transit operational network can be determined.
- The transit vehicle shall support an emergency fare structure overriding all other fares that can be activated during disasters, states of emergency or evacuations.
- The transit vehicle shall support the support advanced payments for tolls, and/or parking lot charges, and/or transit fares via the traveler card / payment instrument.
- The transit vehicle shall provide fare statistics data to the center.
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| Functional Area: On-board Transit Trip Monitoring |
- The transit vehicle shall track the current location of the transit vehicle.
- The transit vehicle shall support the computation of the location of a transit vehicle using on-board sensors to augment the location determination function. This may include proximity to the transit stops or other known reference points as well as recording trip length.
- The transit vehicle shall record transit trip monitoring data including vehicle mileage and fuel usage.
- The transit vehicle shall record transit trip monitoring data including operational status information such as doors open/closed, running times, etc.
- The transit vehicle shall send the transit vehicle trip monitoring data to center-based trip monitoring functions.
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