BART Completes Installation of New Ticket Vending Machines.News Editors OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 26, 2003 BART this week completed the installation of its brand new ticket vending machines vending machine, coin-operated, automatic device for selling goods. Many vending machines are capable of making change, and some of the more sophisticated ones accept paper money or credit cards. (TVMs), which are now in all of the system's 43 stations. The new state-of-the-art ticket vending equipment is one of the major components of BART's $1.2 billion renovation program and includes 572 faregates, 162 adfare machines, and 299 TVMs. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. BART officials the new TVMs have numerous new features, which will not only offer the transit system's customers ease of use, but the convenience of several transaction options as well. They include the ability to purchase multiple tickets with one transaction, purchase tickets of up to $60.00 in value, and use credit or debit cards debit card, card that allows the cost of goods or services that are purchased to be deducted directly from the purchaser's checking account. They can also be used at automated teller machines for withdrawing cash from the user's checking account. , as well as cash. The new TVMs will issue more durable plastic tickets, replacing BART's original paper tickets. Additionally, all of the new ticket machines will accept the new $20.00 bills. Meanwhile, BART is moving ahead with the development of the new Translink ticket which will also be available from the new TVMs in about two years. The Translink ticket, or smart card, will offer a single ticket that will be good on all of the major transit systems in the Bay Area. It will operate as a proximity card Proximity card is a generic name for contactless integrated circuit devices used for security access or payment systems. It can refer to the older 125 kHz devices or the newer 13.56 MHz contactless RFID cards, most commonly known as contactless smartcards. on BART by just passing it over a sensor A device that measures or detects a real-world condition, such as motion, heat or light and converts the condition into an analog or digital representation. An optical sensor detects the intensity or brightness of light, or the intensity of red, green and blue for color systems. which will be located on top of the faregates. BART's renovation program, begun in 1995 and paid for in part by fare dollars, is virtually complete. It also included the modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, of its original fleet of 439 transit cars, rebuilding or replacing all of the system's escalators, and elevators, and the expansion of the system's transit car maintenance facilities which allows for more cars to be available for service each morning. |
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