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ITSO Travelcards
On 08/09/2014 22:09, Roland Perry wrote: [...] I was a little surprised that it all works. I wonder whether RPIs will be able to check the card.. hmm - very good question. I hadn't thought about that but these seismic changes in card acceptance [1] do present some interesting revenue protection issues for TfL and the TOCs. I'm not aware that new readers have been procured but I don't use rail services very often these days so may have missed some changes. One of the problems with one-TOC ITSO cards is their lack of interavailability with other operators on the same route which people take for granted with paper tickets. I haven't seen the T&C for using Contactless cards on TfL (and I bet neither have 99.99% of the people about to be using it). [...] The currently available T&Cs for contactless only cover bus travel: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/contactless-conditions-of-use.pdf [...] One way to do revenue protection (as long as the T&C allow it) is to swipe the card the same way an entry/exit barrier does, and then use the overnight back-office system to decide to either ignore it as redundant [when someone has been good] or use it to charge a penalty fare [when you suspect they haven't]. Inevitably there will be false positives [a penalty fare charged when not warranted] which should make a good story in the next day's Evening Standard. Assuming that anyone notices, which I'm sure TfL will be hoping they won't. |
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