Automated Fare Collection · AFC
Every tap, every ticket.
Fareboxes, validators and gates log each payment. Together they show when people actually travel.
Fare data is the closest thing an agency has to a record of demand. Each transaction carries a time, a device and a fare product. What it usually lacks is a stop.
Matching the device's vehicle and timestamp against vehicle location fills that in.
Fare records can point to a person, so this is the dataset where ownership and access rules matter most.
- Records
- Transaction time, device, fare product and amount
- Arrives
- Typically in batches, when devices upload
- Shared as
- TIDES fare transactions