The Anonymous Widower

I’m All For This!

This article on the BBC web site entitled Lib Dems pledge to halve London morning commuter fares, caught my eye. This is said.

London mayoral candidate Caroline Pidgeon has promised if she is elected in May she will cut Tube and rail fares for journeys before 07:30 by half.

As someone who has generally started work before eight, ever since I marked up newspapers at 05:30 in the morning as a sixteen-year-old, if I’d worked in London over the years, I would have saved money.

Now of course, I don’t pay, as I have a Freedom Pass. it would be interesting to see how many journeys, I do start before 07:30. It’s probably about four a week.

This is one of those ideas that could be tested using sound Control Engineering principles.

At the present time, any journey starting before 04:30 is in the Off Peak.

So for a period of six-months say, you would use 05:00 and see how the usage and revenue changes.

And then later, you move it to 05:30 for a period.

With some clever analysis of the data, I suspect that the time that is the best compromise between customer satisfaction, service costs and revenue can be found.

Giving a fixed time now, is totally wrong!

But in my view, if a politician said, they were aiming to increase the time in which Off Peak fares applied, it would be a sensible policy.

January 6, 2016 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | London Mayor, Ticketing, Transport for London