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Copper Card
The Copper Card is a contactless smartcard fare collection system used by Valley Metro in Phoenix metropolitan area, Metro Phoenix, Arizona. The Copper Card and the Valley Metro mobile app are accepted on Valley Metro Rail, Valley Metro Bus, and Valley Metro Streetcar services. The Copper Card replaces Valley Metro's paper passes and tickets. Daily, weekly, and monthly passes are available with fare capping, which automatically credits the cost of individual trips towards a pass. Valley Metro began researching new payment systems in 2015, following the passage of the Proposition 104 transit tax measure. Valley Metro and the city of Phoenix awarded a contract to provide the system to Australian firm Vix Technology in 2020. Mobile payments were added to the Valley Metro app in March 2023, and the first Copper Cards were distributed in early 2024. The Copper Card system was officially launched in August 2024 and replaced all paper passes at the end of October 2024. Technology T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix Metropolitan Area
The Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, the Salt River Valley, metro Phoenix, or The Valley, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the Southwestern United States, with its largest principal city being the city of Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix. It includes much of central Arizona. The United States Office of Management and Budget designates the area as the Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler Metropolitan Statistical Area, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), defining it as Maricopa County, Arizona, Maricopa and Pinal County, Arizona, Pinal counties. It anchors the Arizona Sun Corridor Megalopolis, megaregion along with the second-most populous metropolitan area in the state, the Tucson metropolitan area. The gross domestic product of the Phoenix metropolitan area was around $400 billion in 2023, List of U.S. metropolitan areas by GDP, 14th highest amongst metro areas in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the two-county met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
