Assessment of a New Type of Coin Acceptor

Details

• Creators:
  Aronis, Paul T.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Automatic fare collection
  • Operating costs
  • Performance evaluations
  • Preventive maintenance
  • Reliability
  • Ticket vending machines
• Publication/ Report Number:
  UMTA-MA-06-0025-83-5;DOT-TSC-UMTA-83-17
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1527054
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Abstract:
  An assessment of the Mars Money Systems Model CD 540-1 coin acceptor associated with farecard vendors was conducted at the Port Authority Transit Corp. as part of an appraisal of automatic fare collection (AFC) equipment. The Mars acceptor consistently ouperforms other coin acceptors in the farecard vendor system with mean transactions per failure better by a factor of 10. Since preventive maintenance requirements are no greater than those for other coin acceptors, the unit gives PATCO a means for lowering operating costs while improving service for passengers.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11474/dot_11474_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.16 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4eed260f76aaad67a4944c0d0be41313a38ce187a243458a28f08ad9ff4bf59e