{"id":33002,"date":"2018-09-01T14:45:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T06:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=33002"},"modified":"2018-09-01T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T06:45:30","slug":"beep-card-hits-1-billion-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/09\/01\/beep-card-hits-1-billion-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"beep card hits 1 billion transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv1424642675m_8846788090072977303gmail-PR\"><strong>Last Aug. 8, beep had its 1,000,000,000<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0transaction in the light rail network (LRT 1, LRT 2, MRT 3), just two months short of its third anniversary in the market. Of this number, 56 percent are beep card transactions while 44 percent are cash via single journey tickets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1424642675m_8846788090072977303gmail-PR\"><span lang=\"EN-PH\">However, the trend in the use of beep cards is still increasing \u2013 in July 2018, some 59 percent of fares were paid using beep cards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1424642675m_8846788090072977303gmail-PR\">\u201cReaching this milestone is a testament that we were able to create a robust and dependable payment solution for mass transit that has brought convenience to millions of the city\u2019s rail riders over the last three years,\u201d said\u00a0Peter Maher, president and CEO of AF Payments Inc., the\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-PH\">consortium\u00a0<\/span>behind beep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1424642675m_8846788090072977303gmail-PR\"><span lang=\"EN-PH\">The Ayala Corp.-Metro Pacific Investments Corp. consortium won the permit to operate an automated fare collection system as a Public-Private Partnership project in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1424642675m_8846788090072977303gmail-PR\">\u201cOur team works day and night\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-PH\">in partnership with the DOTr and the rail operators to ensure that the system meets the demanding performance standards set out in the Concession Agreement,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Maher said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1424642675m_8846788090072977303gmail-PR\"><span lang=\"EN-PH\">Strong online and on ground support helped customers easily adapt to the new system.\u00a0<\/span>Even commuters attest to the improvement of their journey in the elevated trains because of the beep card. Aside from time saved in falling in line, commuters enjoy seamless transfers between train lines and automatic savings for most rides, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1424642675m_8846788090072977303gmail-PR\">Recently, beep launched a mobile app which enables cardholders to check the load and transactions on a daily basis for up to five cards. The app is available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1424642675m_8846788090072977303gmail-PR\">\u201cOur customer surveys have consistently shown that the ease and convenience of using the beep card is among the top three reasons why commuters prefer to take LRT 1,\u201d\u00a0according\u00a0to\u00a0Light Rail Manila Corporation president and CEO Juan F. Alfonso. \u201cComplemented with more trains, more trips, and lesser waiting time, the beep card has contributed to the reduction of the passengers\u2019 travel\u00a0time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1424642675m_8846788090072977303gmail-PR\">Over 5 million beep cards have already been sold. Aside from the LRT and MRT, other modes of transport accepting payment via beep card are the point-to-point buses of Froehlich, HM Transport, RRCG, TAS Trans, and DNS, as well as the BGC Bus, Citylink Coach Services, Lancaster New City shuttle service, and BBL Trans (Balibago-Buendia route).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trend in the use of beep cards is still increasing \u2013 in July 2018, some 59 percent of fares were paid using beep cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6297,5460,4501,96],"class_list":["post-33002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-beep","tag-beep-cards","tag-cashless-society","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}