Digital bus ticketing
I have just come across a news item published in your esteemed daily on 28 Jan 09 titled "'Six bus operators eye Digital Ticketing' seek govt spaces for stations".
I am not very surprised at their motive, which appears to me as 'shifting the buck on to the govt' to grab some land. Digital ticketing as explained in the news item is nothing new in the world. Many developed and developing countries are already successfully using such systems for realising bus fares. But I wonder why our bus companies are asking for land to set up stations. I have seen the system at work in Turkey for more than one year. They did not set up stations for boarding the bus. Rather, machines were built inside the buses, which eliminated the requirement of the bus-conductors altogether. There, only the bus driver was responsible for all affairs in the bus as the lone company man. They have set up machines at the major bus terminals to sell tickets and to refill it when necessary.
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