Electronic Fare Solution

The Vendor is required to provide an electronic fare solution to help manage its school student’s passes.
- The fare technology currently used, and is available to agency:
• Genfare Odyssey validating fare boxes, Genfare Network Manager 7 ver. 4
• RFID Smart Cards, MI fare Classic
• Masabi Val-100 Onboard validator (although not currently part of the student solution)
• Masabi’s fare payment App
• Vontas On Route version 19 for CAD/AVL and Vontas V.8 IVLU‘s.
• Issue a pass with a unique id/serial number to each student
• Allow agency current fare payment systems (Genfare and/or Masabi’s) to read and validate the pass
• Vendors may propose their own stand-alone system
• Agency shall be able to encode each pass as such:
1. Restrict the use of any pass to one or more routes
2. Restrict the use of any pass to several periods of time for any particular day of week (e.g., a pass is valid from 6:00am-9:00am and 3:30pm-5:30pm from Monday through Thursday but valid from 6:00am-9:00am and 3:30pm-9:00pm on Friday)
3. Restrict usage to particular days of week
4. Restrict usage to schooldays only
• Agency shall be able to easily create various rules (i.e. pass validity periods and routes)
• Agency shall be able to bad list individual passes and reinstate individual passes that have been bad listed.
• Bad list shall be available to the entire system/fleet within 24 hours of updating the list
• Bad list update shall be done over cellular connection, through the existing CAD/AVL system
• Updates/upgrades to the proposed system shall be done over cellular connection, through the existing cad/AVL system
• Agency shall be able to batch print/encode of individual passes, including automated population of a database of individual card information assigned to each student.
• The proposed solution shall be integrated with our onboard CAD-AVL system to allow for automatic route recognition; this integration shall not require a separate login by the drivers.
• When a student boards agency bus, and upon scanning/tapping their pass, the system shall:
1. Verify that this pass is allowed on this particular route
2. Verify that this pass is within the allowable time of day and day of week
3. Let the student and driver know whether the pass is valid or not
4. Verification of pass validity may be done through audible sound or visual indication.
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: May 16, 2025