Connecting the Pittsburgh Region with One Fare Card ConnectCard makes regional travel seamless. To improve ease of travel for customers in the Pittsburgh region and achieve strategic revenue and service goals, the Port Authority of Allegheny County (PAAC) needed to update its fare collection approach with a centralized and automated system. The Port Authority worked with LTK to establish the Automated Fare Collection System (AFCS) project, which consisted of new fareboxes, ticket vending machines, pole-mounted smart card validators, hand held validators, and smart card point- of-sale terminals, all of which communicate with a central computer system. LTK provided project management services, general technical assistance, procurement support, system implementation assistance, platform equip

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