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23-11-2007 11:40
Prague fare can be paid by sms
Prague officially earned the fare is not using the ticket, and with the help of sms-messages. Use it can not only locals but also tourists who use the services of Czech telecom operators: Vodafone, T-Mobile and 02.
to pay the fare is very simple. Need to send a text message to DPT to number 9,020,620. After that, within two minutes on a mobile phone will receive a ticket for 20 crowns, which can be used one and a half hours in all kinds of Prague public transport (metro, buses, trams and trains). Unlimited number of transplants.
Electronic Tickets will be on your mobile phone is enough to show the inspector of public transport, according to newsru. He, in turn, could to verify the ticket number with a database of existing tickets on the server transport service. If it seems that the ticket is a fake, then check the authenticity will be sending a controlling SMS-messages.
From 1 January, when the fares in public transport will be increased in the same way you can buy a ticket for 26 crowns. A similar system already operates in Europe in Helsinki, Tallinn and in several other cities.
Prague is very different development public transport from other European cities. Prague's trams, buses, subways and trains use 60% of city residents, and only 40% go on a personal vehicles, while in Europe the situation is exactly the opposite way.
According to many passengers on the subway you can reach Prague from one place to another much faster than by car. Machines mainly used by people living on the outskirts of the city in their own homes.
Source : http://www.svali.ru/index.php?index=11&arhive=1&ts=071123114053&cntr=97
Travel expenses through SMS in Europe is becoming a popular
When in August 2007 year opened the station "Pipe" of Moscow Metro, the entire Moscow to discuss a promising opportunity in the subway fare by phone. The day the mayor of our city first took phone as a way fare. As far as I remember, in the embodiment of this contraption is capable of participating company "Nokia", has created a wonder-phone and the firm "Micron" from Zelenograd, which made a miracle-sim-card. To wonder-phone "Nokia" approach is usually sim card, but if a person does not want to splurge a miracle-phone, then he can buy a miracle SIM card that will work in any mobile phone. The idea of all this is that you put the phone the yellow circle and pass through the turnstile. Mr. Luzhkov said it was "elegant in functionality" way fare. So far I have not heard from anyone, that these bells and whistles we have enjoyed in the subway.
But in Europe, for example, in the Czech way fare by phone became very popular. According to Statistics Prague sociologists, the electronic ticket with the help of SMS daily to buy about 17 000 inhabitants. And it is about 60% of those people who another opportunity to pay the fare one way or another was not (for example, at a later time tickets are not sold or at ticket machines long lines). This method of payment positively motivates people, because the ticket price does not change (ie no VAT and other taxes), and at work because of the queue for a ticket you do not be late.
For those who are unknown to the system of fare collection in public transport in Prague, tells how it all works out there. The fact is that on the turnstiles There have forgotten many years ago, because the majority of Czechs are much more honest of our people. It is believed that an honest man is always to pay the fare. The feet and hands you catch will be if you went without a ticket, but God forbid you run into the controller - you expect big shtrav - in terms of Dollars a fine of 600 rubles. So choose what's better: a ticket or a fine. Controllers at each station a lot: in the past they were in civilian clothes, but now for them to have a special form. Ticket to Prague unique for all types of transport (trolleybus in Prague is not) and called yiizdenka (nominative case, the accent on the first syllable, the number of letters "and" corresponds to the pronunciation of the word). With the passage of vehicles must be validated (ah, remember our good old pink composters and green in the land transport) ticket: the ticket shall bear the name of the station / stop of origin and time of departure, as tickets in Prague vehicle is not on the number of trips, and the amount of time proezzhennogo in transport. Another is in the system fare no small thing when something Comrade Dmitri Gaev like to introduce our Moscow metro - interchange and neperesadochny ticket (as correctly in Russian include such types of tickets - I do not know). If you know that you do transplant from branch to branch, you must purchase the appropriate ticket. Thank God, in the Moscow metro this is not invented, otherwise everyone would look for work in his area, where you can dotopat on foot or by land transport (although in this case happened to collapse on nazemke ..).
Source: LiveInternet, author Zvaigznite
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