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Posted by WillD on Tue Apr 7 22:23:28 2009, in response to Interesting Method of On Board Fare Collection, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Tue Apr 7 21:57:31 2009. That's facinating. Here I thought my idea was so original. I thought that to implement Smartcards on commuter rail here in the states the conductor would have a handheld card reader that would encode the originating station on the card. To me it'd seem to take too long for the C/R to ask everyone their destination and enter it into his or her reader. Thus once the conductor had read their ticket and the passenger had reached their destination they'd tap their card on a reader pad near the door before stepping off the train. The system would then be able to compute the fare and deduct the proper amount. Of course the major problem with this is that the dwell time at busy stations could be greatly increased as passengers fumble for their smartcards. That could be mitigated somewhat in systems with large terminals by simply making any card which doesn't tap out en route simply pay the fare to that terminal station, but would still create problems at popular stations on the return trip.I think I prefer the Japanese method to what I came up with, although I'm not sure I like the purchasing aspect. I've always wanted a farecard I don't have to stop at a machine to fill, or even think about before using the train. A kind of transit ez-pass where I just have to pull out my card onboard the train, get the fare debited, and go on my way. Having to stop at a machine to put a ticket for travel between two specific stations kind of seems to defeat the purpose of having a smartcard. |
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