COUNTERMEASURES TO LIMIT THE CONFLICT BETWEEN MOBILITY, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT

This paper discusses automatic ticketing systems as a possible approach to limiting conflicts between mobility, safety, and the environment. They provide one way of clarifying the relationships between the users, beneficiaries (or victims), payers, and producers of transport services. They make explicit the contract binding these parties. The author argues in favour of developing automatic ticketing systems as a socio-economic management tool. They have become much more feasible as a result of advances in information technology. Ticketing can provide a good knowledge of who consumes what, when and why. It handles the shares of those paying for the services. It can also provide relevant data for transport planning, enabling the provision of transport at least cost, where it is most useful or needed most. The extreme diversity of the people, involved in the contract, implies that the contract system must be very flexible. A contract, managed by an automatic ticketing system, constitutes a legal framework, defining the rights and obligations of all people involved. This approach also has the great advantage of being accurate, so that mobility flows can be determined, and the cost of each trip can be allocated to the individuals or legal entities that, it is agreed, shall bear the cost.

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  International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences

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• Authors:
  • Texier, P-Y
• Publication Date: 1992

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 162-6
• Serial:
  • IATSS Research
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences
  • ISSN: 0386-1112

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Automation; Payment; Public transit; Tariffs
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 9001: Behaviour; 285: Demand (econ); 2455: Environment; 9112: Impact study; 9105: Mobility (pers); 272: Payment; 744: Public transport; 9150: Risk; 1755: Road user; 1665: Safety; 9072: Selection; 241: Tariff; 1155: Transport
• Subject Areas: Finance; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00644401
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Apr 18 1994 12:00AM