Public transit ticketing system in the San Francisco Bay Area, US
Clipper
Clipper logo
Other names
路路通 (Chinese)
Location
San Francisco Bay Area
Launched
June 16, 2010
Technology
MIFARE DESFire (MF3ICD40)
Operator
Cubic Transportation Systems
Manager
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Currency
United States dollar ($300 maximum load)
Credit expiry
None
Auto recharge
Yes
Validity
24 transit services (see below)
Retailed
Online
Ticket machines (BART, Muni, Golden Gate Ferry, San Francisco Bay Ferry (Vallejo only), SMART, select Caltrain stations)
Walgreens stores
Select local retail stores
Clipper customer service centers
Variants
Youth Clipper card[1]
Senior Clipper card[1]
RTC Clipper card[2]
Limited-use Muni ticket[3]
Limited-use Golden Gate Ferry ticket[3]
Website
Clippercard.com
The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used for automated fare collection in the San Francisco Bay Area. First introduced as TransLink in 2002 by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) as a pilot program, it was rebranded in its current form on June 16, 2010.[4] Like other transit smart cards such as the Oyster card, the Clipper card is a credit card-sized stored-value card capable of holding both cash value and transit passes for the participating transit agencies.[5] In addition to the traditional plastic card, Clipper is available as a virtual card in Google Wallet and Apple Wallet.[6][7][8][9] Clipper is accepted by nearly all public transit services in the Bay Area, including but not limited to Muni, BART, Caltrain, AC Transit, SamTrans, Golden Gate Transit, Golden Gate Ferry, San Francisco Bay Ferry, and VTA.[10]
^ ab"Youth/Senior Cards". Clipper. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
^"RTC Card & Accessibility". Clipper. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
^ ab"Loading Value". Clipper. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved May 9, 2021. Limited-use tickets can only be used for one-way and round trips on Golden Gate Ferry and Muni and provide no transfer discounts, but youth, senior and disabled riders can purchase discounted tickets at ticket machines.
^"TransLink name changes to Clipper on June 16 - SF Ferry Riders".
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^"Google Pay | Clipper". clippercard.com. Archived from the original on May 19, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
^"Apple Pay - Bay Area Transit". Apple. Archived from the original on May 16, 2021. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
^"Use Google Pay in Place of Bay Area Clipper Card - Google Pay". pay.google.com. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
^Cite error: The named reference :4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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and the Port of Oakland about who would pay to modify fare equipment, ClipperCard readers were never installed on the buses. Ridership was about 2,800...
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on various levels of the ISO/IEC 14443 Type-A 13.56 MHz contactless smart card standard. It uses AES and DES/Triple-DES encryption standards, as well as...
Francisco Bay Ferry. Most of these agencies accept the ClipperCard, a reloadable contactless smart card, as a universal electronic payment system. Government...
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