The UTSG list proved to be such a fertile source of information on routeing
factors that I am encouraged to appeal to the collective wisedom once again.
This time I am trying to track down some information on the relative capital
and running costs of alternative public transport fare collection systems.
Ideally, I would like ball park estimates for
paper tickets systems
magnetic stored value systems
smartcard (contactless) systems
I appreacite that much depends on the details of specific implementations,
but its seems to me that it should be possible to draw some general
conclusions. There appears to be very little published information on this
issue, so I would very much appreciate any suggestions or pointers to
relevant sources.
With thanks.
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John Polak, Head of Transport,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College
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