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Electronic ticket printers (EFD)
Electronic ticket printers as selling way in the passenger traffic
© Uwe Losse last updating 2006-10-17
Advantages of electronic ticket printers
Disadvantages of electronic ticket printers
Electronic ticket printers in transporting enterprises
Electronic ticket printers are also on-board computers and both mobilely in the buses and courses, and stationarily as booking office equipment are used at the same time. Electronic ticket printers are served by the sales and personnel. Electronic ticket printers in the vehicle are blocked, steer over IBIS the attached Goal tape type indications, mobile ticket automats, Entwerter, passenger number systems, dynamic ones Passenger information, computer controlled ones Operating control systems, and v. M. Electronic ticket printers control optionally electronic currencies, like e.g. Money map or enterprise-referred smart cards. The manufacturers of electronic ticket printers have on this Area a large know-how acquired that with the employment electronic ticket printers to those Transporting enterprises one continues to give.
The electronic ticket printer is in that Procurement relatively inexpensive and made possible fast and clear accounts. Whole account systems leave themselves with the use of electronic Ticket printers automate. Electronic one Ticket printers can lead the sales personnel, like that only small tariff knowledge are necessary. ontinues to give.
Electronic ticket printers are applicable due to the relatively small capital outlays in relation to to the use with each transporting enterprise both in the vehicles (bus, course, streetcar, motor coach, booking offices). The electronic ticket printers can of the transporting enterprises by those Driving money management often commodity and further Background systems freely the tariff needs to be adapted. Thus the electronic can Ticket printer to be flexibly used and fast to the needs adapted.
- high and fast account security: In relation to manual ticket sales the account and administration expense are very small.
- high static detectability of sales: All sales are captured electronically. Evaluations after time, day, line, ticket kind, and v. M. are fast and simply possible.
- high adaptability: Electronic ticket printers can be adapted to the tariff mass fast. Straight transporting enterprises by several traffic groups with your vehicles drive, can with a skillful tariff programming of the electronic ticket printers the sales personnel relieve clearly.
- simple and clear operation: electronic ticket printers usually need no special service staff. The training course expenditure is very small.
- simultaneous employment as on-board computers: Electronic ticket printers are used in the vehicle at the same time as IBIS - controller. This saves costs and gives everything to a hand. This is with the implementation complex passenger information systems, Traffic light influence systems or computer controlled Operating control systems absolutely necessarily.
- in relation to block ticket sales of slower Sales procedure: The sales personnel must to electronic ticket printer operations like the input of start and goal, or the selection that Ticket kind meet. The individual sales procedure is somewhat slower with manual sales.
- in relation to the block ticket sales larger capital outlays develop: The unique acquisition of electronic ticket printers and those Purchase of spare parts are higher than with manual sales.