Protect revenue as your network grows
Cash leakage. Slow boarding. Limited visibility of what passengers actually pay. As networks grow, it becomes harder to control where revenue is collected
and how much is lost. With structured fare media, the transport provider can see what passengers actually pay and where revenue is collected.
Each validated transaction provides a clear record of fare income. Trapeze works with public transport providers across Africa to introduce fare media suited
to their operating conditions, including hybrid formal and informal networks.
Losing control of revenue
Public transport providers across Africa manage bus networks in challenging conditions.
- Cash remains central to daily fare collection
- Mobile money and local digital payments are widely used
- Connectivity can be unreliable across parts of the network
- Informal and formal operators often run side by side
- Passenger volumes continue to grow as cities expand
Individually, these conditions are manageable. But together, they make traditional fare control methods difficult to maintain. Without structured fare validation and reporting, transport providers can’t clearly see how much fare revenue is actually collected and where it comes from.
Fare media that works in real conditions
Trapeze designs fare systems that match how passengers actually travel and pay. Transport providers can choose the payment methods that best fit their network, passenger behaviour and budgets:
- Mobile wallets and mobile money payments
- QR-based ticketing
- Contactless smart cards
- Account-based ticketing.
Transactions are processed on the device and continue even when connectivity is limited. Data synchronises automatically once a connection becomes available.
This gives transport providers reliable fare validation and clearer records of what passengers actually pay.
Stop reconciling fares
Next-level arrival time prediction
Real-time vehicle position
Each bus continuously sends its location, speed and progress back to the system. This gives a live view of where every bus is and how it is performing across the network.
Route progress monitoring
The system tracks how far each bus has travelled along its route and how much distance remains. This is used to calculate how long it will take to reach upcoming stops.
Historical travel time analysis
Past journey data is used to understand how long different parts of a route typically take, including peak periods, quieter times and seasonal changes.
Adaptive prediction algorithms
Arrival times are calculated using a combination of live vehicle data, recent journey conditions, historical patterns and timetable data. These inputs are continuously balanced to maintain accuracy as conditions change.
Integration with traffic information systems
Traffic conditions, incidents and roadworks can be fed into the system to adjust predictions in real time, helping reflect delays as they happen.
Continuous prediction updates
As buses move, arrival times are constantly recalculated and updated across all passenger information channels, ensuring the latest information is always shown.
Take control of how fares are collected
Transport providers using Trapeze fare media move from manual reconciliation to clearer and trackable fare income.
Protect more fare revenue
Protect more fare revenue
Digital validation reduces leakage and records every fare collected.
Reduce cash handling risk
More fares are validated digitally, reducing reliance on manual cash collection.
Move passengers through stops faster
Simple validation methods reduce dwell time and keep buses moving.
See where revenue is generated
Transport providers can see how much fare income is collected and where passengers are paying.
Support network expansion
Add new routes, buses and passengers without changing how fares are managed.
Continuous operation across your network
Trapeze fare media systems run in the conditions that transport authorities deal with every day.
Secure transaction processing
Each fare validation is encrypted, so every fare is securely recorded.
Offline fare validation
Fare transactions are processed on the device when connectivity is unavailable and synchronised once a connection returns.
Flexible fare structures
Transport providers can define stored value fares, concession products, time-based tickets and distance-based pricing.
Multiple payment methods
The system supports mobile money, QR tickets, smart cards and digital wallets.
Centralised revenue reporting and clearing
Transaction data is consolidated so authorities can monitor fare income and allocate revenue to operators.
Local system hosting options
Fare systems can operate across many locations or in locally hosted cloud systems, where financial data must remain within the country.
What transport providers say
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