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Ken to TOCs - end of January deadline to sign up for Oyster PAYG
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:12:17 +0000, James Farrar
wrote: On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:51:50 +0000, Paul Corfield wrote: On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:54:52 +0000, James Farrar wrote: On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:07:53 +0000, Paul Corfield wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:08:04 -0000, "Mizter T" wrote: TfL's offer to the National Rail (NR) Train Operating Companies (TOCs) to fund the £20 million cost of installing equipment to allow Oyster Pay-as-you-go (PAYG, a.k.a. Pre-Pay) isn't open ended, and the deadline - the 31st of January - is fast approaching. It would appear the Mayor is keen to bounce the TOCs into signing up to the deal. See this TfL press release: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-cent....asp?prID=1037 The full release on the Mayor's site is a tad more revealing and also includes a wonderfully inaccurate statistic about gate throughput. I can see how they came up with the numbers, but it certainly doesn't apply to the newest gates (as at KXSP, Marylebone NR etc.) You can? Please tell me. Hmm, on further review... I did wonder if I'd missed something. I know what the numbers are as I used to test the gates, know the design spec and used to calculate all the gate quantities for LU stations. I can tell you that 15 people per minute for magnetic tickets is utterly wrong That is too low. It doesn't take 4s to activate a gate. 25ppm is the planning capacity per walkway. while 40 for Oyster only is pushing the upper limit of what is possible given the western sense of personal space. I think that's based on how long it takes to read the card and return to a state able to accept the next card being 1.5s - I don't know if this is accurate, but it's plausible. I've seen (and taken part in) a demonstration at Cubic's UK offices where we got just under 40 people a minute through a gate. The paddles never moved as the ticket transport / target was permanently activated and thus no instruction to close was given. -- Paul C Admits to working for London Underground! |
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