[LINK] more myki woes

[Ash Nallawalla]

> From: Tom Worthington

> The system in Istanbul is a much simpler "touch in" one
> <http://www.tomw.net.au/travel/istanbul.shtml>. There is a
> fixed price for a ride which is not dependent on distance or time. You
> are debited at the start of the journey and so do not need to touch in
> again at the end. This has several advantages for implementation: you
> don't need a complex fare system in the readers: one touch debits one
> fixed fare unit. You don't need the system at the end of the journey,
> halving the load on the readers and  reducing the performance
> requirements (it is much more annoying being delayed when getting off a
> tram than when getting on).

In 1979 I used a metal token-based system in Toronto. IIRC, it was based on
a continuous single trip irrespective of changes of vehicle, e.g. I took a
tram that went into a railway station, so I could get on a train without
needing to go through the turnstiles. At the other end I could get onto a
bus or tram the same way. If I got off a tram and changed to another route,
it was a new token.

http://www3.ttc.ca - they still have tokens in use as well as more modern
options.

I have never bought the story that "our conditions are different, so we need
a unique solution." Why do our conditions need to be different?

http://www.ptua.org.au/policy/ticketing/

Ash