INIT 'landmark' contract with Sacramento

INIT Innovations in Transportation has been awarded what it says is a landmark contract with Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG), an association of local governments in the six-county Sacramento, California region that provides transportation planning and funding for the region.
January 27, 2012 Read time: 1 min

511 INIT Innovations in Transportation has been awarded what it says is a landmark contract with Sacramento Area Council of Governments (1783 SACOG), an association of local governments in the six-county Sacramento, California region that provides transportation planning and funding for the region. INIT will istall a multi-agency electronic fare collection solution on approximately 500 buses and at more than 80 locations on rail station platforms. Although the company says it has installed successful fare collection projects around the world, the contract with SACOG marks a major milestone because it is the first of its kind in the North American market.

The contract calls for the implementation of smartcard passenger terminals (ProXmobil), add fare machines (AFM), GPS enabled onboard computers, customer service workstations, retail sales terminals (Evendpc), and a sophisticated back-office fare management system (Mobilevario) for the Council’s new Connect transit card system.

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