Inside the ticketing system and the benefits brought by it

Author

Stefanescu, Patrick ; Mocan, Marian ; Stefanescu, Werner

Author_Institution

Fac. of Manage. in Production & Transp., Univ. “Politeh.” of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

fYear

2013

fDate

4-6 July 2013

Firstpage

341

Lastpage

344

Abstract

The importance of time and costs for people living in the 21st century is well known; therefore many cities from different countries implemented a new system for validating tickets in public transport vehicles called ticketing system (TS). The paper highlights the implementation of the validation system in Timisoara, Romania and the advantages and disadvantages related to costs and time that are spend for this system to work properly also the benefits regarding the company that implemented it and the citizens that are using the services provided by the public transport company. The information is obtained from two platforms named: RadFleet and Sat-Sale that are integrated in the ticketing system.

Keywords

transportation; RadFleet platform; Romania; Sat-Sale platform; Timisoara; public transport company; public transport vehicles; ticket validation system; ticketing system; Cities and towns; Companies; Educational institutions; Sensors; Subscriptions; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Science and Engineering (ICSSE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

2325-0909

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0007-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSE.2013.6614688

Filename

6614688