New LECIP Fareboxes Will Make NCTD Services More Convenient

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North County Transit District Awards Contract For Alternative of Its Legacy Money Fare Assortment System to LECIP

BENSENVILLE, In poor health. — LECIP Inc., LECIP Holdings Company’s consolidated subsidiary, has been awarded a contract for the alternative of the money fare assortment system on the North County Transit District’s (NCTD) BREEZE buses serving North San Diego County. Starting in early 2022, LECIP will ship and set up the brand new money fare assortment system to NCTD. The brand new fareboxes will present a better and faster manner for riders to pay their fare, leading to enhanced comfort for NCTD BREEZE passengers.

“It’s actually an honor to be awarded this undertaking from NCTD,” stated Akio Fujii, CEO of LECIP Inc. “LECIP seems ahead to kicking off the brand new money fare assortment system with added performance and advantages for NCTD’s riders. We’re excited to have one other footprint on the west coast with this vital undertaking.”

Passengers will start to see the brand new fareboxes aboard BREEZE buses in January 2022. The brand new fareboxes will exchange the present fareboxes that had reached the top of their helpful life and have a simplified consumer interface for each passengers and the Bus Operator, making it simpler for patrons to know how a lot fare is due and for the Operator to see how a lot money has been deposited.

“We imagine LECIP’s revolutionary farebox will present a brand new stage of ease for each riders and Operators on our BREEZE buses,” stated NCTD Board Chair Tony Kranz. “With the simplified interface, riders will now have the ability to pay their fare aboard BREEZE buses shortly and simply, serving to them get the place they should go sooner and extra effectively. This funding in a brand new money fare assortment system additionally gives enhanced ridership knowledge that can be utilized to assist enhance the rider expertise and produce extra handy providers to our passengers in North County. Together with the brand new and improved fare system, PRONTO, coming quickly, these cutting-edge upgrades will dramatically enhance the shopper using expertise.”

The undertaking additionally includes a cloud primarily based back-office system utilizing Software program as a Service (SaaS). That is the primary time LECIP will likely be providing the back-office system with the SaaS enterprise mannequin for the U.S. market. Upkeep and help providers on this back-office system will likely be offered for no less than 10 years, which can improve NCTD’s accessibility to each day transaction knowledge and permit for environment friendly system administration.

The ten-year contract was accredited on the April 22, 2021 NCTD Board Assembly and contains the farebox models and set up, depot vaults, SaaS back-office, testing, coaching, and upkeep and system help.

About LECIP: LECIP, established in Japan in 1953, is without doubt one of the main suppliers for bus gear and programs with a variety of product/resolution portfolios. It contains options reminiscent of ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) data, Passenger Info Show Methods, LED Vacation spot Signal, Money Fare Containers, Ticketing Printers, Automated Fare Assortment Methods for route buses, Transit Administration Methods, LED Lighting for trains, and Industrial Tools. LECIP serves greater than 60,000 buses in Japan and over 5,500 buses in Singapore, which might be presently in operation. LECIP has over 60% market share for fare collections programs and 40% for the LED vacation spot signal market in Japan. In Singapore, over 25% of route buses are outfitted with LECIP LED vacation spot indicators, together with our fareboxes and ticket printers.For extra data please go to: https://www.lecip.co.jp/lecipinc/