I haven’t seen that done with Umo but I have seen that in other places, where student ids double as a fare card. I do think that we should be moving away from fare media that requires a human to read it to see if it’s valid. I believe our plan is to have BRT as Proof of Payment (ergo why the New Flyer’s didn’t have fareboxes) and so all fares need to be clearly validated to the rider before they board.
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For the NC State GoPass, you have to sign into a portal to get a benefit code you redeem in the Umo app. A little more involved than UNCC & CATS, but once you set it up, it’s set up for the remainder of the year. And it still only takes a couple of minutes, not something you have to “request” and wait a response for.
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I don’t go to NC State, so I was just basing it off what I was able to see here. Either way, a lot of students either don’t know they have the ability to access the GoPass or just don’t trust the public system (as they should). UNCC Students just use it for the light rail.
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Here’s what that form looks like to someone who is signed in:
It looks like they’ve changed the form since I last used it in the fall (specifically with the addition of that last question), but once you fill it out it immediately sends you an automated email with the benefit code that’s associated with your affiliation. That email looks like this, with additional instructions on how to activate the GoPass:
I don’t know of any differences between the different affiliations, but I do know they do categorize those numbers separately in the performance metrics that GoRaleigh publishes.
Since they ask you to sign up with your email anyways, it would be nice that was the only thing you had to do, but at least you only have to do it once a year.
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