Luzerne County Transportation Authority and Modeshift Partner to Improve Rider Experience - Business Wire

WILKES-BARRE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Modeshift, a starring contactless fare postulation strategy provider, announced contiguous a concern with Luzerne County Transportation Authority (LCTA) to motorboat a caller mobile fare and information postulation system, servicing Wilkes-Barre, PA, and its surrounding areas of Luzerne County.

Modeshift has worked intimately with the LCTA to plan, plan and instrumentality the mobile ticketing system, which volition importantly summation easiness of usage for riders, streamlining the process to petition and wage for a summons with conscionable a fewer clicks connected your mobile device. The information fare postulation solution volition besides supply the LCTA with invaluable insights to assistance optimize transit routes, portion improving accessibility for riders.

“We’re excited to instrumentality this caller mobile fare exertion with Modeshift to simplify the ticketing process for our riders passim Luzerne Country who trust connected america each day,” said Robert Fume, enforcement manager for the LCTA. “This caller mobile ticketing exertion eliminates the request of having the nonstop currency amount, and offers our riders an accidental to acquisition a summons straight from a mobile instrumentality oregon astute card, linked to their debit oregon recognition card, without worrying astir the nonstop magnitude of currency connected hand.”

“Our mobile ticketing level and information fare postulation strategy volition dramatically amended easiness of usage for riders successful Luzerne County and simplify back-end operations for LCTA,” said Miroslav Katsarov, CEO of Modeshift. “At Modeshift, we are committed to providing transit agencies with intelligent, user-friendly proscription solutions that amended ratio and summation ridership.”

Features of the Modeshift mobile app and online strategy volition include:

• Mobile Ticketing: Riders tin easy program their travel and acquisition fares done a mobile application.
• Smart Cards: Riders without a mobile instrumentality tin petition peculiar astute cards from the bureau and past link their cards oregon currency to their account.
• Web Portal: Travelers tin besides entree galore of the supra benefits online, streamline travel readying and fare purchases.
• Data Collection: Enables LCTA to optimize its strategy based connected real-time insights, marque data-driven decisions and prevention invaluable resources.

About The Luzerne County Transportation Authority
The Luzerne County Transportation Authority (LCTA) was incorporated successful 1972 arsenic an Urban Mass Transit Administration (UMTA), PennDOT, City Demonstration Agency of Wilkes-Barre, and Federal Disaster Assistance Administration (FDAA) objection task successful effect to work disruptions resulting from Hurricane Agnes. Since then, LCTA has grown to astir 150 employees and provides fixed-route and ADA paratransit service. In presumption of labour representation, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 175 and Teamsters 401 correspond LCTA drivers and attraction employees. LCTA has 22 autobus routes, including 5 evening routes. This year, LCTA is celebrating its Golden Anniversary.

About Modeshift
Modeshift, Inc. is simply a exertion institution that helps transit agencies modernize their user-facing exertion and the underlying infrastructure to amended efficiency, summation ridership and supply adequate, sustainability-oriented service. It is the lone all-in-one integer mobility infrastructure level that besides gives the transit manufacture the tools to trim their c emissions and purpose for sustainability. Our halfway merchandise is Account-based Fare Collection System, based connected the Microsoft Azure unreality and delivered arsenic a work (Software arsenic a Service – SaaS). Modeshift besides provides different subsystems which implicit the stack of hardware and bundle needed to run a modern transit strategy specified arsenic Mobile ticketing, CAD/AVL and real-time rider information.