The project will develop the performance and functional requirements for a public transportation smartcard-electronic payment system. The requirements documentation will be relevant to rural - suburban/urban - urban public transportation providers.

The Concept Proposal (Proposal) is to create the performance and functional requirements for a public transportation smartcard/electronic payment system. The smartcard portion of the electronic document will contain the necessary client and agency information to verify the provision of services to the client while the electronic payment system (EPS) will provide the means for real time or batch electronic verification, billing and payment for transportation services.

The performance and functional smartcard/electronic payment system requirements will be developed in two phases. The first will be the generic information and reimbursement performance and functional requirement variables to be incorporated in a smartcard/electronic payment system. The second phase will be the performance and functional requirements for the smartcard/electronic payment system within the Northern Shenandoah Valley Public Mobility Program's deployed networked computer aided-dispatching and Medicaid reimbursement system.

SmartCard
The first element of phase one of the smartcard requirements documentation will outline:

- The client, agency and funder information requirements necessary for the exchange of information for transportation services provided by public transit, human service transportation, workforce transportation and commuter rideshare programs (Applications Programming Interface).

- The information requirements will contain the means to exchange information between the smartcard and the client's agency for card up-dating.

- The information requirements will contain the means to exchange in-vehicle the client, agency and funder information in an authenticated, secure, controlled access "need-to-know" environment (Card Access Device; Electronic Service Delivery).

- The information requirements will be matched to the current National ITS Architecture, Standards and other appropriate standards (Multi-Application Operating System - MAOS).

The second element of phase one will review the economic viability of a public transportation smartcard through the potential applications in the public and private sector human service - health care market (NOTE: This would be specifically targeted to programs and activities supported by local, state and federal funders):

- Medical/Health Care
- Family assistance and programs
- Child assistance and programs

The second element analysis will also incorporate the open interoperability requirements.

Electronic Payment System
The first element of the first phase in the development of the electronic payment system performance and functional requirements will outline:

- The integration between the smartcard database and the electronic payment system including the up-dating, ride verification and security requirements (Applications Programming Interface).

- The client, agency and funder real time and/or batch information exchange requirements (Card Access Device; Electronic Service Delivery).

- The electronic payment mechanism requirements (Secure Electronic Transaction).

- The electronic payment clearinghouse requirements (Secure Electronic Transaction).

- The electronic payment system requirements will be matched to the current National ITS Architecture and Standards.

The second element of the phase 1 EPS requirements will incorporate the following review and analysis. This analysis will be conducted with the assistance of the I-95 Corridor Coalition's EPS Track Technical Staff:

- literature search on existing or planed public transportation EPS systems;

- literature search on existing financial transaction clearinghouse models and functions;

- analysis of the economic viability of local, regional and national EPS clearinghouse systems;

The third element of the EPS phase one will review potential applications for the smartcard/electronic payment system to ascertain the potential economic viability of a public transportation application. The smartcard and electronic payment system performance and functional requirements documentation will outline the issues, options as well as the requirements.

Procurement Agency: Virginia DOT
Project Contact: Michael Hite and Gregory Cross, VDOT

The objectives of this project are:
• To develop the general performance and functional requirements for a public transportation smartcard - electronic payment system.
• To develop the performance and functional requirements for a smartcard - electronic payment system for the Northern Shenandoah Valley Public Mobility Program.

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I-95 Corridor Coalition $ 75,000
Northwestern Community Services (Staffing/In-Kind) $15,250
Northern Virginia Regional Commission (Admin/In-Kind) $5,000
Virginia Department of Transportation (Staffing/In-Kind) $17,500
Participating Agencies (Aggregate/In-Kind @ $3,000 per agency) $27,000
RouteMatch (Staffing/Technical In-Kind) $10,250