7.3.1.5: Bill Traveler for Transit Fare

This process shall be responsible for obtaining payment for a transit fare transaction using data provided by the traveler. The process shall achieve this either by requesting that the fare be deducted from the credit being stored by the tag that is acting as the payment instrument for the traveler, or by informing the traveler that payment for the fare will be debited to the credit identity provided by the tag. Before sending data to the tag, the process shall check that the traveler's credit identity is not already in the list of bad payers, and if it is request an image of the traveler which can be forwarded to the appropriate enforcement agency via another process. The tag may be in the form of cash, some type of credit or debit card, an electronic purse, or an intelligent transit ticket upon which pre-payment has been recorded, etc. Details of the transaction shall always be sent by the process to the process that manages transit fare transactions. The process shall pass details of advanced transit fare payments to another process when the traveler eventually passes a fare payment point. If requested the process shall provide a copy of the current bad payers list to processes in the transit vehicle fare collection facility for use in on-board payment validation.

This process is associated with the Transit Management Center physical object.

This process is associated with the following functional objects:

This process is associated with the following data flows: