(April 2009) – New contract from Saskatoon. After a competitive tender, BEA Transit Solutions was awarded a contract from Saskatoon Transportation Commission, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada for the supply, installation and commissioning of a smart card fare collection system for 135-bus fleet and 21 Access Transit Units. The BEA solution will enable passengers to pay their fares by smart card with period passes, tickets and e-purse as well as pay for other municipal services with a separate municipal e-purse. Ten thousand cards are expected to be distributed. Passengers will be able to reload value onto their smart card by telephone, internet, at unattended add value machines, as well as Saskatoon Customer Service Centre. The system is expected to go into revenue service by December 2009
(August 2008) - Kingston Transit goes live: BEA Transit commissioned the new Automatic Fare Collection system designed and manufactured for Kingston Transit. The new system involves the installation of BEA’s Smart Farebox in all of the Kingston Transit buses, together with two customer service centers and a number of attended add value machines deployed at third party merchants.
(December 2007) - Brantford Transit starts revenue service: Brantford Transit launch into revenue service its new contactless based Automatic Fare Collection system designed and built by BEA Transit Solutions. Based on BEA’s Smart Farebox, the system is the first implementation in North America of BEA’s Smart Farebox. The Smart Farebox is capable of printing and scanning bar-coded transfers, together with coins and smart cards
(Febuary 2007)– New contract from Brantford,
BEA Transit solutions was selected by the Brantford
transit to design and install a new automatic fare collection system based
on BEA Smart Farebox. The system is expected to be in revenue service by
the end of 2007.
(December 2006)– Metrobus goes live
On December 1, 2006 the Automatic Fare System installed by BEA Transit
Solutions for the St. John's Transportation Commision (Metrobus) in St.
John's Newfoundland started revenue service.
(August 2006)– New contract from SITEUR
Beginning with an initial contract from SITEUR in 2002 to retrofit some of
the existing fare gates on the Guadalajara Light Rail Transit system to
accept contactless smart cards, Grupo BEA has since won successive contracts
to equip the balance of the LRT fare gates, to provide unattended add-value
machines for the entire LRT system, to equip the Bus Rapid Transit system
with cash/smart card fareboxes and to provide attended add-value machines
for both the LRT and BRT. Over 85,000 smart cards have been issued to date.
(May 2006) – Selection for TechBA program
BEA Transit Solutions was selected by the Ministry of the Economy of Mexico
in May 2006 to participate in the TechBA Program, a technology business
accelerator program located in Austin TX, San Francisco CA and Montreal QC
and funded by the Mexican Government to assist promising Mexican high
technology companies to grow and develop their businesses in North America.
This endorsement by the Ministry gives clear evidence of BEA’s technological
prowess and commercial potential. TechBA Montreal has contracted with Inno-Centre
in Montreal to make available its extensive technical and marketing
resources and support to BEA as well potential access to venture capital as
and when required. Inno-Centre is an organization with more than 20 years of
experience that has incubated and accelerated more than 150 companies in
areas such as telecommunications, information sciences, software
development, biotechnology and other high technologies, life sciences,
industrial technologies and materials.
(February 2006) – New contract with St. John’s Transportation Commission
After a competitive tender, BEA Transit Solutions was awarded a contract
from St. John’s Transportation Commission, in St. John’s, Newfoundland,
Canada for the supply, installation and commissioning of a smart card fare
collection system for Metrobus’ 54-bus fleet. The BEA solution will enable
passengers to pay their fares by smart card with period passes, tickets and
e-purse as well as pay for other municipal services with a separate
municipal e-purse and collect loyalty points based on regular ridership that
can be redeemed for value from Metrobus. Ten thousand cards are expected to
be distributed. Passengers will be able to reload value on the telephone and
by the Internet and in person at attended add-value machines at area
merchants as well as Metrobus’ Customer Service Centre. The project is on
schedule to go into Revenue Service on December 1, 2006.
(November 2005) – New contract for SUBA
After a competitive tender, Grupo BEA was awarded a contract from SUBA in
the State of Sonora, Mexico to supply, install and commission a smart card
fare collection system for transit authorities operating in 11 cities and at
85 depots across the state. Passengers will load value onto a common state
smart card and will be able to pay their fares on any transit system in the
state. The BEA system will feature a single clearing house to clear and
settle the fares owing to each of the 11 operators. The system will involve
1500 buses, 25 personalization stations and over 500,000 smart cards.
Passengers will be able to reload value onto their smart cards at terminals
and depots, at reload agents and at unattended add value machines.
