BEA Transit Solutions Inc. is a Canadian corporation with offices in Toronto and Montreal

BEA Transit Solutions Inc. is the North American subsidiary of Grupo BEA, a leading transit technology solutions provider based in Guadalajara, Mexico which in turn is a unit of Idear Electronica, a major manufacturer of electronic components and systems.

For over 15 years, Grupo BEA has designed, developed, manufactured and installed sophisticated automatic passenger counting systems to enable transit operators to manage their fare collection processes effectively. With over 15,000 APC devices successfully operating at transit operators in over 80 cities in 8 countries, Grupo BEA has become a world leader in APC solutions by relentlessly focusing on improving transit productivity through technological innovation.

In response to an overwhelming demand from its transit clients, in 2001, Grupo BEA expanded its transit fare collection solutions offering by developing and marketing a sophisticated fare payment system based on secure contactless smart cards. Through its subsidiary, Intelligent Transaction Systems de Mexico, Grupo BEA has since sold smart card AFC systems throughout Mexico for use by over 100 transit operators. By early 2007, BEA’s transit clients will accept fare payments by over 1 million smart cards that will be in active circulation.

These BEA systems are applied across diverse transit modes including LRT, BRT and buses and are used for fare payment at turnstiles and fare gates, at on-bus validators and at cash/smart card fareboxes. Smart cards are issued and personalized at BEA manufactured personalization terminals and are reloaded with value at BEA manufactured attended and unattended Add-Value machines, which unattended machines can also dispense smart cards. Passengers can also reload value remotely over the telephone or by the Internet.

BEA Transit Solutions recently installed its first Canadian smart card AFC system in Newfoundland at Metrobus for the St. John’s Transportation Commission. Metrobus passengers can pay their fares with a period pass of configurable duration, from a smart card ‘ticket book’ of configurable size and from an electronic purse. Their smart card will also contain a separate municipal e-purse for payment for other municipal services and will allow passengers to collect loyalty points for future redemption.

Whether by providing state-of-the-art passenger counting systems or a specialized cash/smart card farebox or a flexible configurable smart card AFC system, Grupo BEA is dedicated to “improving transit productivity through technological innovation” and BEA Transit Solutions is focused on providing “innovations in smart card fare collection”.