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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Fri Mar 5 02:35:09 2010, in response to Unpunched Railroad Tickets, posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 4 23:53:34 2010. The Japanese seem to have done a decent job with that, they have PATCO-style ticket collection for commuter railroads (you need a ticket of appropriate distance to both enter and exit). Many stations are at grade and/or have railroad crossings adjacent to them, very easy for someone to cheat, but since you need the ticket to exit as well, you would have to cheat twice.You could take it a step further here and have the turnstiles "validate" the ticket by printing something on it, and have steep fines for an invalid ticket. Kinda like PoP but three things have to go right for someone to get away with it (get around source turnstile, not get caught without a ticket, get around destination turnstile). Another idea I posted a while ago with a video of on-board verification of seating, where a "ticket" (nothing more than a few bits of data) can be loaded onto a smart card and is used when waved in front of an at-seat reader. An amber light changes to green to indicate that the seat is supposed to be occupied, and is set back to amber once the target station has been reached. A conductor would simply need to check for people sitting under amber lights (which would replace seat checks, saving even more money), rather than actually look at the tickets. |
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