To quickly and accurately pay a fare.
A non-contact IC card 10 carried by a passenger is set up to one of a commutation ticket, a coupon ticket and a prepaid card and its information is stored in a memory 11. When the passenger approaches an entrance main station 20 or an exit main station 30 at the time of paying a fare, the information is inputted to a CPU 41. In the case of a commutation ticket, getting on/off is permitted by available section information included in the information. In the case of a coupon ticket, an amount for the current fare is subtracted from the remaining amount stored in the memory 11 based upon unit section fare information and remaining frequency information included in the information, and in the case of a prepaid card, similar operation is executed based upon remaining amount information and deperture bus stop information included in the information.
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