> - Vailidation of Metcards on trams is another issue that I a few
> people in this N/G have expressed their concern. Those people who
> object to validating a vailidated ticket fail to reconise the fact
> that the machine would most likly check if the ticket is vailid, but
> would also be used to form boarding stats to (hopfully) improve
> services, but also more importantly to let operators know how many
> passengers they carried so that they may claim their money. Especiialy
>
> important after privitisation.
[SNIP]
I am not sure whether OneLink, or more correctly, ERG ticketing system,
can keep an accurate boarding statistics. I seem to remember that late
last year, ERG lost contracts of supplying automated ticketing systems
to a couple bus companies in U.K., because of inability to keep accurate
boarding statistics.
Finally, come to think about it, it is not quite possible for the system
to keep an accurate boarding statistics. This is particularly true for
those Group-Get-A-Bout or other similar tickets where more than one
person will be travelling on that one ticket.
Cheers,
I.C.
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