Automated fare collection system
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1. A system for collecting ticket data from mass transportation vehicles comprising:
- a plurality of mass transportation vehicles;
a plurality of portable media containing data on the vehicles;
a plurality of readers for reading the data from the media;
a plurality of vehicle computers for reading the data from the readers and transmitting the data from the vehicles; and
a remote central computer for receiving, storing, and processing the data, in communication with the vehicle computers;
wherein at least one of the readers and at least one of the vehicle computers travels on each of the vehicles, each specific reader collects the data from the media on the vehicle on which the specific reader is traveling and transmits the data to a vehicle computer, and the vehicle computers transmit the data to the central computer.
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Abstract
A system and method for collecting ticket data from mass transportation vehicles in which conductors on each vehicle collect tickets, scan in the ticket information into readers, and the readers on each vehicle transmit the ticket information back to a central computer. In some embodiments the central computer can also transmit data, such as expected passenger lists, to the readers.
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1. A system for collecting ticket data from mass transportation vehicles comprising:
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a plurality of mass transportation vehicles;
a plurality of portable media containing data on the vehicles;
a plurality of readers for reading the data from the media;
a plurality of vehicle computers for reading the data from the readers and transmitting the data from the vehicles; and
a remote central computer for receiving, storing, and processing the data, in communication with the vehicle computers;
wherein at least one of the readers and at least one of the vehicle computers travels on each of the vehicles, each specific reader collects the data from the media on the vehicle on which the specific reader is traveling and transmits the data to a vehicle computer, and the vehicle computers transmit the data to the central computer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for collecting ticket data comprising:
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a plurality of media containing ticket data;
a plurality of readers for reading the data from the media, including a first communication means;
a plurality of vehicle computers for reading the data from the readers, including a second communication means;
a remote central computer for receiving, storing and processing the ticket data, including a third communication means;
wherein each reader collects ticket data from some of the media, each reader transmits the collected ticket data to at least one of the vehicle computers, and each vehicle computer transmits the data to the central computer using the first, the second and the seem third communication means. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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