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The RTL’s implementation schedule
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2008
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DEPLOYMENT
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March 20 to May 4
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107 customers (adults, students, seniors and disabled persons) along with the RTL’s 1,000 or so employees are testing the smart card for you. By proceeding this way, the RTL wants to make sure that all purchase, use and recharge functions work properly.
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April 20
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Riders using the regular $76 transit pass for May can get a rechargeable OPUS card at the Longueuil terminal’s AMT ticket office and at 6 points of sale, the first to offer the card.
Note that for May, June and July, only the monthly RTL regular fare pass can be coded on your OPUS card. However, all transit fares of all the project’s partners (TRAM, CAM, tickets; regular, intermediate and reduced fares; transfers, etc.) will be gradually encoded on the OPUS card – the rechargeable card for all. |
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May 20
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The first users of the OPUS card can recharge their June pass on their OPUS card.
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June 20
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A large number of points of sale, i.e. all outlets in Vieux-Longueuil and Boucherville, offer the regular monthly fare for June on the rechargeable OPUS card.
The first OPUS cardholders can recharge their June OPUS card.
Adapted transportation customers receive their OPUS card and can encode their monthly fare.
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July 20
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25 points of sale in Brossard and the AMT’s downtown ticket outlet offer the monthly regular fare for July on the rechargeable OPUS card. |
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August 20
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Deployment in the remaining points of sale (25)
The RTL’s reduced fares are introduced on registered OPUS cards bearing the user’s photo (6-11 years, 12-17 years, 18 and over).
Schools are visited to promote the OPUS card.
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Late November
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All the RTL’s transit fares are sold on OPUS cards.
Paper tickets and passes have been phased out, except for transfers when fares are paid cash.
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Before 2008
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2003
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PROJECT PREPARATION – Contract awards
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July
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Award of the “Sale and collection” contract (for all partners) to ASCOM, which has since become ACS (communiqué).
Award of the “Collection boxes” contract (STM and STL only) to GFI.
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September
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Award of a complementary contract for the acquisition of GPS systems (RTL only).
Installation of additional GPS systems to equip all RTL buses with a GPS.
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2004
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SYSTEM DESIGN
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All year
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Review of the technical and functional aspects of systems and equipment. |
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January
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Positioning of the bus driver’s validator and console.
Internal communications plan. |
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April
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Second phase of the GPS installation program aboard RTL buses.
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September 28
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First customer trials. |
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2005
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MILESTONE
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All year
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The partners specify the selected equipment’s functionalities. Some equipment is purchased “off the shelf”, while other equipment must be adapted or specially designed by the supplier.
Development and updating of organizational processes. |
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2006
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MILESTONE
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June to December
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Equipment installation strategy aboard buses.
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November and December
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Presentation of the project to a group of employees (program, schedule and meetings).
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2007
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FINAL PREPARATION
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All year
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The RTL provides training to all concerned groups.
External communications plan, common to all partners.
Preparation of the deployment phases.
Installation of equipment aboard buses. |
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