Integrated ticketing-10 years on

[riven]

Check out he OV chip card; the system for the Netherlands.

The card covers travel via bus and train inside the Netherlands and can be loaded up to cater for international journeys with start and finish in Netherlands. You simply swipe in and out for each journey.

[hammer]

The 15 staff that are working 24/7 on this difficult task are all probably TDs children. How else would they get such a good gig

When I use my 5 day commuter ticket, i scan it getting on the bus it reduced the days available by one and for the rest of the day it recognises the card.
The following day ditto.

Now if you did that on all public transport and set maybe a fee of €4.50 per day per commuter everyone would be happy !!!

[hammer]

My belief is we are a very backward country. 10 years to sort this. The more I think about it, there must be an agenda to dither. Do we want people to stay in their cars rather than switching to public transport ?

Do we make that much money on petrol & diesel that we cant afford to take any less.

FF MUPPETS MUPPETS MUPPETS MUPPETS
Minister of Transport - BIGGEST MUPPET THERE IS

[Harmonica]

Not even that complicated. It could be done in a few months by copying the Oyster card system from London. It's brilliantly simple. Software already exists. And proportion paid to each transport arm is calculated automatically. What a collection of useless people we have in this country.

Do you not realise Dublin is unique? Sure they don't have a Luas in London so how would there card work here? (I am sure that is the thinking of senior staff in the department)

We should also remember that these senior civil servants had a smaller pay reduction because they lost their performance related bonuses. You have to wonder they did to get those bonuses originally.

[Chrisco]

Do you not realise Dublin is unique? Sure they don't have a Luas in London so how would there card work here?

They do actually have a 'Luas', it's called the South London Tram. And the Underground, and the Overground, and the DLR, and national rail, and all the London borough councils, and the Mayor's office... More 'stakeholders' than trees in north Dublin, yet it still gets done.

[alonso]

TESTING OF the new integrated ticketing system for public transport in Dublin is to get under way within weeks, with a pilot project beginning before the summer.

According to the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) “bench testing” of the card scanners and back-office systems has gone well, and physical testing of the cards on the Luas and Dublin Bus vehicles will now begin.

Testing of new public transport ticket system to start in weeks - The Irish Times - Mon, Mar 08, 2010

[birthday]

Testing of new public transport ticket system to start in weeks - The Irish Times - Mon, Mar 08, 2010

The thread title should be changed to '11 years'.
1999-2010. Now we start 'testing'.
Well done to everyone involved!!

[brughahaha]

The thread title should be changed to '11 years'.
1999-2010. Now we start 'testing'.
Well done to everyone involved!!

12 actually ...possibly 13

from the IT article
"If the project goes well numbers will be expanded and testing will then move on to the pay-as-you-go cards after the summer.

Early next year Irish Rail systems will be integrated and the infrastructure will gradually be rolled out to non-State-owned bus companies."

[seabhcan]

FFS...

They've had the scanners installed in dart stations since late last year. Why did they install them 3-4 months before they were ready to test them? Why didn't they test them as they were installing them? What do they do now, if something is wrong? Pull them all out again?

They've had scanners in the buses since 2008. These are identical to the scanner that have been used in the Luas since the begining of the last decade. They us identical chips with identical format. Why can we still not use our Luas smart cards to pay for the bus? Why has Dublin Bus still not brought out their own smart card?

And when they do - how will we top up our cards on the north side of the city, where there are no top-up or ticket machines? Do we need to get into the city center to top up?

This is a joke.

[alonso]

shambolic nonsense from day one but if it's any consolation (IT'S NOT) MElbourne has had a similar experience

myki’s Integrated Ticketing Disaster Continues - Overseas - Auckland Trains

Sydney's public transport ticketing to get worse. - Contempt

Ah maybe one day we'll get one. One day.