Transit Technology Built for Small and Mid‑Sized Agencies
Your agency runs 10 to 150 buses. You need automated fare collection, real-time tracking, rider alerts, and passenger counting – without the enterprise price tag or the 18-month deployment timeline. TransitFare delivers all of it from a single platform, backed by 13 years of proven operations.
One Platform. Every Transit Technology You Need
Transit agencies your size face an impossible choice: cobble together four or five separate vendors for fare collection, tracking, alerts, and passenger counting, or buy an enterprise system built for 500-bus metro networks. Neither works.
TransitFare is the solution. One cloud platform, one vendor, and one set of onboard hardware that delivers automated fare collection, real-time CAD/AVL, transit alerts, automated passenger counting, and GTFS data publishing. Your riders get UseTransit – a single branded app where they plan trips, buy fares, subscribe to route-level alerts, and check live arrival times. The more modules your agency deploys, the more UseTransit can do. Deploy in weeks, not years. Manage everything from a single dashboard in TransitFare Cloud.
Over 90% of our customers expand to additional modules after their initial deployment.
FARE COLLECTION
Automated Fare Collection That Deploys in Weeks
Riders expect contactless payments. Your board expects accurate revenue data. Drivers shouldn’t be cashiers – and with TransitFare’s automated fare collection, they don’t have to be. Accept contactless smart cards, mobile barcodes via the UseTransit app, printed QR tickets, and integrated fareboxes for agencies that still need cash capability.
Over 1,500 fare product configurations, fare capping, and a rider web portal for self-service account management mean your agency gets the same fare technology as a large metro – sized and priced for your fleet. We’ve processed 60 million+ fare validations, including 3.5 million contactless card taps and over 1 million barcode validations in 2025 alone.
Average deployment time for a full AFC system including hardware: 14 weeks.
REAL-TIME TRACKING
Real-Time Tracking and CAD/AVL for Every Vehicle in Your Fleet
Know where every bus is, in real time. Automate stop announcements to meet ADA and AODA accessibility requirements. Control destination signs from Hanover and Luminator systems. Publish GTFS-Realtime feeds so your riders see live arrival times on Google Maps, Apple Maps, and in the UseTransit app.
TransitFare’s Computer-Aided Dispatch / Automatic Vehicle Location (CAD/AVL) is delivered through the TF4 Edge Gateway. It’s purpose-built onboard hardware that connects your vehicles to TransitFare Cloud and publishes GTFS-realtime data. Dispatchers manage detours, schedule changes, and real-time rerouting from a single dashboard. Riders see live bus locations and arrival predictions in UseTransit and third-party apps. Automated announcements are already active on 250+ vehicles across our network.
Average deployment time for a full AFC system including hardware: 14 weeks.
TRANSIT ALERTS
Transit Alerts: One Alert, Six Channels
Your riders can’t see your service alerts on Google Maps. Your operations manager spent 45 minutes last week manually posting a detour to Facebook, emailing the city manager, and updating the website – and still forgot to notify riders subscribed to Route 5.
Transit Alerts fixes this. Create one alert in the dashboard. It publishes simultaneously to your GTFS-Realtime alert feed (so alerts appear in Google Maps and Apple Maps), a website widget for your public website, email subscribers, and your agency’s social media accounts. And an optional SMS channel.
Smart Route Subscriptions let riders subscribe to the specific routes and stops they use – through the UseTransit app or web portal. Route 5 riders get Route 5 alerts, not a generic blast. No hardware required. Transit Alerts is a standalone product that works whether or not you use any other TransitFare service.
Publish high-quality transit alerts in a single click.
PASSENGER COUNTING
Automated Passenger Counting That Simplifies NTD Reporting
FTA-funded agencies must report Passenger Miles Traveled and ridership metrics to the National Transit Database. Most small agencies still do this with staff on buses counting riders by hand – hundreds of hours per year spent on manual ride checks.
TransitFare automates it. IRIS and Xovis APC sensors mounted at vehicle doors count boardings and alightings continuously. The TF4 Edge Gateway collects the data and sends it to TransitFare Cloud, where ridership reports are organized by route, stop, and time period – formatted for NTD compliance.
18 million passenger boardings counted via APC - data your planners need for NTD reporting and route optimization.
HARDWARE
TF4 Edge Gateway: Purpose-Built Hardware for Transit Vehicles
Every TransitFare capability starts with what’s installed on the bus. The TF4 Edge Gateway is a family of onboard devices designed for transit vehicles – from paratransit vans to 60-foot fully articulated fixed-route buses. Higher model number means more capability. Same TransitFare Cloud platform behind all of them.
Need tracking and dispatch for your paratransit fleet? The TF4-EG100 handles GPS tracking, trip identification, and dispatch integration. Running fixed routes with stop announcements and destination signs? The TF4-EG300 adds automated announcements and sign control. Full fleet ITS with passenger counting and fare validator integration? The TF4-EG500 delivers it. Mixed fleet? Deploy the right tier on each vehicle – one cloud platform manages everything.
Hardware-as-a-Service is available for agencies without capital budgets.
Why Transit Agencies Choose TransitFare
Deploy in Weeks, Not Years
Enterprise transit platforms take 12 to 18 months to deploy. TransitFare’s average AFC deployment – hardware and software – takes 14 weeks. SaaS-only products like Transit Alerts can be live in as little as 4 weeks. Your riders and your board see results in the same fiscal year.
One Vendor, One Platform
Fare collection, real-time tracking, transit alerts, passenger counting, GTFS publishing, and a rider app – all from one vendor. No integration headaches between four separate systems. No finger-pointing when something breaks. Managing 344 routes and 6,100+ stops across our network from a single cloud dashboard.
Built for Agencies Your Size
TransitFare was founded in 2012 to serve small and mid-sized agencies – not as an afterthought to an enterprise platform. We serve communities totaling nearly 2 million residents. Our customers run 10 to 150 buses. Our pricing, deployment model, and support are built for your budget, your staff size, and your timeline.
About TransitFare
TransitFare is a transit technology platform founded in 2012 that provides automated fare collection, real-time CAD/AVL, transit alerts, automated passenger counting, and GTFS data publishing for small and mid-sized transit agencies. Deployed across the United States and Canada since 2012, with products available to transit agencies internationally. The platform powers nearly 600 transit vehicles, has processed over 60 million fare validations, and serves communities totaling nearly 2 million residents with zero unplanned downtime in three consecutive years.
TransitFare Cloud is the centralized dashboard for fleet management, fare administration, GTFS feed publishing, and operations reporting. The TF4 Edge Gateway is the onboard hardware family that delivers tracking, automated stop announcements, passenger counting, and fare validation at the vehicle level. UseTransit is the rider-facing mobile app and web portal that serves as the experience layer across all TransitFare deployments, giving riders trip planning, fare purchases, personalized alert subscriptions, and real-time arrival predictions in a single branded app.
See What TransitFare Can Do for Your Agency
Whether you need to modernize fare collection, give riders real-time bus tracking on Google Maps, automate NTD reporting, or consolidate your service alerts into one dashboard – we’ll show you how TransitFare works for agencies your size. No pressure. No 47-slide deck. Just a conversation about what your agency needs.
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