Making a Smarter Card

Many of the changes to improve SmarTrip's operations will happen at the fare gate reader and in software that will not alter the physical characteristics of the cards. When system modifications are finished, SmarTrip will automatically update the first time the card is scanned at the fare gate. Elements of the SmarTrip card:

SOURCES: WMATA, Giesecke & Devrient | GRAPHIC: By April Umminger and Laura Stanton, The Washington Post - December 9, 2007

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