9 Electronic transportation fare collection equipment comprised of a biometric user identification system, namely, biometric sensor capturing real time data corresponding to a stable physical characteristic of a person, which provide either verification or identification of the identity of the people by computer analysis of the physical characteristics, and associated computerized accounting system, namely, data link to a financial institution and/or credit transaction processing center to process credit transactions, verify creditworthiness and transmit requests to debit accounts and computer database to store the biometric data collected by the biometric user identification system