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It will be done by mobile phone and bank card.
The third metro line was forgotten when placing the order.
Integrated automated system for electronic charging and video surveillance in public transport in Sofia will work in May, learned “24 hours”. And then the sale of tickets for buses, trams and trolleybuses must be resumed, which has been impossible since early 2021.
The ticket system was supposed to be operational at the beginning of the year, but the pandemic, sick technicians, delivery delays and equipping the new third metro line postponed the introduction of the electronic travel ticket.
The main part, which is video surveillance, however, already works on all vehicles of the capital’s public transport. The programming, implementation and installation systems have also been implemented for about 13 thousand validators, on-board devices, printers and others. The different systems are being tested and all employees who will work with the ticket system have been trained.
Through it, passengers on public transport in the capital will be able to buy a transport document through a bank card directly from a validator. Drivers will continue to sell too. However, as of March 2020, a ticket cannot be taken away from the driver and due to the pandemic it is not known when it will be possible again. As of January 4, the drivers do not sell tickets, but monitor tips and fines for irregular passengers.
With a ticket, the system will be able to buy and validate a transport document through the mobile phone. Will allow and
online load of
travel cards,
what will save
waiting in line
For the first time, there will be 190 card loading machines. They will be in the busiest places in the capital. For public land transport and the metro, the ticket will be the same, not different. Piercers go to the museum, because the new system will not pierce tickets.
In-vehicle validation will take less than 500 milliseconds. It will be done using electronic cards of the new system, bank cards, mobile phones using a generated QR code or NFC. A ticket purchased by the driver will not be validated.
The system must
tracks successfully
the free
and do a quick analysis of passenger flow in order to direct more cars to busy lines.
Thanks to the system, you can enter the charge for the travel distance or the time expected by the citizens of Sofia. However, this also requires a decision from the Sofia City Council. According to the mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, and the president of the SOC, Elen Gerdjikov, a more suitable option would be the capital, where the public transport ticket is valid for a certain period of time.
Due to the delay in the start of the new ticket system, the impossibility of buying a ticket from both the drivers and the vehicles themselves, Save Sofia came out yesterday with a clear position.
“The ticket system, which costs almost BGN 100 million and which has been under construction for years, is being postponed again for the indefinite future. The official reason is that CGM has ‘forgotten’ to integrate the new metro line into it. , it does not matter that it is under construction since 2015 and it has been known for a decade exactly how many stations and exits it will have.As the drivers and drivers do not sell tickets, there is no new system, and the vending machines placed on the trams and trolleys they were solemnly scrapped precisely because of the new ticket system, which does not exist. They do, “the organization wrote on Facebook.
“The electronic system
to load now
works in the subway
Also in urban land transport, everything is built. The validators will work there at the end of the month. Video surveillance has been in operation for all vehicles for more than a month, which, in addition to passenger safety, allows us to collect information on vehicle occupancy. Once the system is up and running, we will monitor data for several months on which lines are busiest, at what times, and in which sections. Based on them, we will offer an update of public transport schedules to make it more convenient for the people of Sofia. The entire third metro line will be conditioned. The reason for the delay is that when the documentation for the announcement of the ticket system process was made, the details about the stations of the third diameter of the metro – entrances, exits, etc. they were not clear. We talk about details, but they are important to be able to calculate the number of validators, devices, etc. ”, Explained to” 24 Horas “the head of the Urban Mobility Center Dimitar Dilchev.
Currently, there are around 700,000 active public transport cards in the capital. Their replacement with the new electronic cards will be done in stages and will be free for Sofia residents, Dilchev said.
Otherwise, currently the passengers traveling by public transport in the capital are 1/3 less than the usual flow of passengers at this time of year.
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