Cubic Wins $15 Million Contract for South Florida Smart Card System
Tri-Rail Commuter Rail Extends Miami’s EASY CARD for Regional Travel
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - February 23, 2010 – Cubic Transportation Systems,
Inc., the transportation business unit of Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB), has
been awarded a $15 million contract to design, deliver and provide services for
a new smart card ticketing and revenue management system for the South Florida
Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA), which will be interoperable with Miami-Dade
County’s new EASY CARD system.
Tri-Rail,
the commuter rail service connecting Palm Beach and Broward
Counties with Miami-Dade County, will be the first transit
agency to join in the creation of a South Florida regional system, giving Floridians
the ability to use one fare card – a smart card – to travel on both systems.
Palm Tran and Broward County Transit are expected to join later.
Tri-Rail’s transaction
monitoring, processing, settlement and reporting will be handled by the Miami-Dade
Transit through the back-office system of Cubic’s Nextfare® open software
and hardware platform. Nextfare integrates a business management system and
passenger
devices for smart card issuing, processing and validating. The open design
enables multiple agencies in a region to share resources while keeping all
proprietary
information separate and secure, giving agencies a way to reduce costs. Examples
of regional systems where Cubic’s Nextfare systems are in use are the greater
Los Angeles area, Atlanta, and Brisbane, Australia.
Miami-Dade
Transit’s EASY
CARD, which officially launched in October, was built, integrated and fully operational
across all bus and rail services within 15 months, an accomplishment owing to
the increasing maturity of Nextfare, which has been fielded by more than a dozen
transit agencies around the world.
The
SFRTA system will process smart cards and printed tickets
and will encompass 76 ticket vending machines, 85 station
validators, six ticket office machines, and 60 handheld units.
The
SFRTA-Miami Dade Transit interoperability will create the
first multi-agency regional
system
that is compliant with the American Public Transportation Association’s Contactless
Fare Media Standard that has been adopted in public transport as the national
standard. Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc. is part of Cubic Corporation.
Cubic
Corporation is the parent company of three major business segments:
Defense Systems, Mission Support Services and Transportation
Systems. Cubic Defense Systems is
a leading provider of realistic combat training systems and defense
electronics. Mission Support Services is a leading provider
of training, operations, maintenance,
technical and other support services.
Transportation
Systems is the world's leading turnkey solution provider
of automated
fare collection systems for public transport
including bus, bus rapid transit, light rail, commuter rail, heavy
rail, ferry and parking. Cubic's solutions and services
include system design, central computer
systems, equipment design and manufacturing, device-level software,
integration, test, installation, warranty, maintenance,
computer hosting services, call centre
services, card management and distribution services, financial
clearing and settlement, multi-application support and
outsourcing
services.
Every
year, nearly 10 billion rides are taken worldwide using
Cubic fare
collection systems. Cubic has delivered over 400 projects in
40 major markets on five continents. Active projects
include London;
New York
/ New Jersey region;
Washington, D.C. / Baltimore / Virginia region; Los Angeles region;
San Diego region; San Francisco Bay Area; Minneapolis/St. Paul;
Chicago; Atlanta; Miami;
Vancouver and Edmonton, Canada; Brisbane, Australia; Scandinavia,
Germany and India.