The Anonymous Widower

Could London’s Passenger Counting Technology Look For Non-Payers?

I took another trip on a crowded 141 bus today and it had the passenger counting technology on board.

Passengers were fascinated and obviously some were using it to determine whether to go upstairs.

It struck me that as those entering the bus have to touch-in, by correlating this with spaces, it might be possible to determine how many passengers hadn’t touched-in.

It wouldn’t actually identify them individually, but by simple arithmetic it could probably identify routes with the highest levels of non-payers.

So if a particular area on route XX showed a high-level of non-payers, that is obviously where you send your inspectors.

September 18, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Buses, London, Ticketing