On Jul 4, 8:29*pm, (Neil Williams)
wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 08:30:27 -0700 (PDT), MatthewD

wrote:
Another issue is likely to be whether to charge flat fares on buses,
or graduated fares. The latter will require either touching out on
alighting, or stating the destination to the driver before
validating.

Singapore use touch out on alighting. *It seems to work OK - the way
it works is that when you board the maximum fare is deducted from the
card, then when touching out there is a refund if required.


Singapore is a small, tightly managed state. The way they do things
largely doesn't translate to here, in particular touch out.

Capt Deltic is right when he writes "the functionality of the [ITSO]
smart card will be limited to that of a
mag-stripe ticket" in the context of his article in MR July issue,
namely the initial method for using the ITSO method for a ticket into
London followed by one or more journeys onwards by TfL services from
the heavy rail terminus, and in reverse when leaving London. It is the
80/20 rule: it is often relatively easy to satisfy 80% of the
travellers in a simple and effective manner with a ticketing system,
but the rest...