of credit, after which the cards will be charged at £5. An amount of money is electronically loaded onto the card, either upon boarding a bus or at the Cardiff Bus customer service centre. A passenger then chooses a ticket type. The card can also be used as a season ticket. The card should be topped-up when the balance is low, however, the card allows the customer to acquire a negative balance up to £3. The card can be topped-up in units of £1, £2, £3, £4, £5, £10, £15 or £20, up to maximum amount of £50. The card may be used by persons aged between 6 and 60. The Iff card cannot be used to pay a partial amount. The card is cancelled if not used for a continuous period of one year. Contactless In March 2018 the company introduced the Ticketer contactless card payment system on all its routes. As well as including an EFTPOS reader for Visa/Mastercard cards, fares can be bought and scanned using the Cardiff Bus app (which on most tickets including day to go and week to go tickets is cheaper than using cash). The reader can also scan QR codes from paper multi-journey tickets. Fleet As of September 2022, the fleet consists of 198 vehicles, all of which are low floor. Single deck vehicles dominate the fleet, accounting for 90.7% of the overall fleet. Since 2013, 90 brand new vehicles have been purchased, with the most recent being delivered in November and December 2021. On the double deck side of the fleet, of which there are 31 vehicles, ten high capacity Alexander Dennis Enviro400s joined the fleet in 2015, a further 10 have arrived on loan between August 2022 and January 2023. Prior to the delivery of the former, thirteen East Lancs Olympus bodied Scania N230UDs entered service in 2007 but have now all been withdrawn. In 2022, 8 second-hand N230UD Scania Omnidekka buses were purchased from Nottingham City Transport. The most common single deck type was the Pointer-bodied Alexander Dennis/Dennis/TransBus Dart SLF, with 72 vehicles of three different lengths in the fleet, although these have now all been sold or withdrawn. The second most common type is the Scania OmniCity, with 43 in total. Nineteen of the OmniCitys were of the articulated variant but these have now all been withdrawn. The Alexander Dennis Enviro200 also dominates, with 40 examples in the