Functional evaluation of the Los Angeles smart card field operational test

摘要

This paper summarizes the functional evaluation of an AdvancedFare Payment System deployed in Los Angeles in the summer of l994.The functional evaluation is part of a larger Field Operational Testeva- luation (Chira-Chavala, T., and Coifman, B., l996. Impacts ofSmart Cards on Transit Operators f Eva- luation of I--110 CorridorSmart Card Demonstration Project. UCB-ITS-PRR-96-17, Institute ofTransportation Studies, California PATH Research Report, Universityof California, Berkeley, CA; Guliano, G. and Moore II, J. E. 1996.Evaluation of the I-110 Corridor Smart Card Demonstration Pro- ject.UCB-ITS-PRR-96-20, Institute of Transportation Studies, CaliforniaPATH Research Report, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley, CA)managed by the Partnership for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH)for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and theFederal Transit Administra- tion (FTA). The demonstration projectfielded two types of advanced fare cards incorporating very differ-ent technologies on three separate transit properties as part of arelatively low cost system constructed from components manufacturedto commercial rather than industrial specifications. Overall, thesystem performed well. Radio Frequency (RF) Cards demonstratedextremely high reliability. Smart Cards per- formed less well thenthe RF Cards, but both systems greatly surpassed the standards formagnetic stripe cards.