Cubic Transportation Systems was awarded a USD 6.5 million contract from the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), which operates rail and bus routes, to migrate the Cubic-operated back office system for the Breeze Card to the cloud. The migration will be implemented through Cubic’s collaboration with Microsoft and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
Under the contract, Cubic will also upgrade the Breeze Card system to the latest release of its NextFare central system software. The upgrade will improve user experience and operational efficiency by optimizing the database performance and data warehouse capability. This will make it easier for MARTA to maintain payment card industry (PCI) compliance and will provide enhanced network security and disaster recovery features.
“Moving the Breeze Card system to the cloud will not only provide MARTA with enhanced functionality, but it also marks an important step in the journey to provide the best-in-class, next-generation transit service in Atlanta,” said Matt Cole, president of CTS.
CTS designed and delivered MARTA’s Breeze Card, a card-based automated fare collection (AFC) system that utilizes Cubic’s smart card ticketing technology, in 2006. Since then, Cubic has been providing maintenance and onsite support to MARTA and maintenance support to its regional partners, the State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA), Cobb and Gwinnett counties and the Atlanta Streetcar. The Breeze Card system currently generates more than 106 million rides annually.
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