Edición No. 9 - Andinatraffic

ANDINATRAFFIC - EDICION No. 9
level, so only fare products according
to every profile should
be loaded. AFC Central System
will verify that only one card has
been distributed to each customer,
and confirm identification
of the card and the customer
profile entitling the purchaser to
discounted tickets.
In order to allow sales or validation
discounts, some information
related to the owner profile
should be included in the contact-less
cards. For example:
• Patron profile: For instance:
• Regular
• Student
• Pensioner
• Mobility impairment
• Unemployed
• Bicycle
• Patron profile validity period
(e.g. start and end of validity
date)
All different profiles will be
defined in the detailed Design
Specification Phase of the Project..
2.2 Types of fare products
According to the Automatic Fare
Collection Specifications HHR-
LO-AF-403-SYS-001-D1’), at the
beginning of the operation phase,
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two types of tickets will be used
in the system: single journey tickets
(one trip between origin and
destination stations) and stored
value tickets (fare calculated
at the exit gate and withdrawn
from the value stored within the
card).
Nevertheless, due to the strongly
parameter-based structure of
the fare products information
contained in the fare media, the
AFC system will be very powerful
allowing the definition of a
complex set of fare products.
In addition to the parameters
mentioned above, the system
will contain fare product information
as:
• Type of ticket (stored value,
pass, stored ride …)
• Type of discount: For instance:
• One trip or a fixed value
• Profile depending
• Peak or non-peak depending
• Type of day (e.g. weekend) depending
• Zone depending
• Multi-passenger available
• Anti-passback activated (a settable
period of time after validation
during which a card can
not be used for accessing the
paid area. It is usually associat-
ed to personal passes in order
to avoid multi-usage)
• Transfer allowed
• Using all these parameters,
many different fare tickets
could be defined. From simple
fare products like ‘all zones
multi-trip multi-passenger ticket’
or ‘all zones monthly pass’
to some quite more complex
like ‘value, plus multi-passenger
plus for one zone only, plus
non-peak only, plus not valid in
weekends’, etc.).
In contact-less cards, it shall be
possible to combine up to four
fare products in the same card.
Anyway, precise rules shall be
defined at Detailed Specification
Phase in order to clarify all
co-existence conditions and to
avoid conflicts between different
fare products. The validators will
then have the capacity to automatically
choose the best option
for the passenger. The passenger
will be informed of the chosen
option.
Some other type of cards and
tickets will be developed for different
purposes: For instance:
• Testing cards and tickets
• V.I.P. passes