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There is no greater folly than the turnstiles on public transport. Once upon a time in Moscow, in all buses, trolley buses and trams set the turnstiles and told to enter only through the front door. This was done in order to accommodate all the passengers - Mosgortrans cheated on before, and exempts itself knocked heavily subsidized. Due to the fact that the Moscow government could not civilized to deal with thieves in Mosgortrans, honest passengers began to suffer.




Why do we all love the subway? Metro predictable. You know that if you leave the house at 9:00 am, then you will be at work at 9:45. Trains run every 2 minutes, travel time, if no one falls back on track, too, can be predicted with an accuracy to the minute. This is the main advantage of the metro to own a car.

Now take the tram. How to make a tram attractive for passengers? The idea is that a good light rail more convenient subway. In the subway you spend too much time on the descent and ascent at the station, and the stations themselves are not always at hand. Tram does not have these drawbacks: it is on the same level with the street, you do not have to go underground. Tram stops are located in residential areas, many people would be more comfortable ride for exclusively on a beautiful boat. What we have in reality? In fact, we have a fair comment passengers: "Ahaha, tram? This is the one that knows how to wait? It is one that barely goes? »

Last year Deptrans decided to conduct an experiment and remove one of the routes of the turnstiles. The aim of the experiment was a break in the system when there is an entry at all doors. The experiment was made for express routes and trams of new generation.

For the experiment was selected 17th tram. This route is one of the core (70 000 passengers per day) for the minimum therein intervals (2.5 minutes during rush hour), it completely passes through the separate business web that does not match its route to the other routes.



Urban projects conducted research during the experiment and found that 65% of the time is on the tram stops. Embarkation and disembarkation of passengers takes longer than the movement.

On some stations the situation in general was terrible. Planting lasted 5 minutes, but even in this time everyone in the tram could not enter and had to wait for the next.

Once removed the turnstiles, parking lot began to occupy 43% of the time of the trip. In addition, significantly reduced the landing stage. Significantly increased speed of the tram.



Save time on the road after the introduction besturniketnoy system and optimize traffic was 54%!



We interviewed passengers and found that 70% of the passengers noticed that the tram began to walk faster, almost all respondents said that the tram has become more convenient to use.



You are trying to say that the turnstiles are needed to fight the rabbits? This is another misconception.

First, those who do not want to pay for the ticket, will not pay for it and turnstiles, and without them. You can always quickly enter through the back door, you can get through a turnstile. Look at the train: a lot of birds with one stone, and nothing they do not stop. The problem of birds must be addressed separately, and we'll talk about it next time.

We requested data on revenue Mosgortrans. It was found that the relative loss compared to the turnstile system for 2 months of the experiment amounted to 2, 5 million. Rubles, or 3% of revenues from passenger transportation. Revenues from non-payment of travel decreased by 12, 5%.

Thus we now have absolutely no system works with the overseers. In Berlin, for example, no turnstiles not only on land transport, but even in the subway! But every passenger knows that if he gets caught, it will pay a heavy fine. And supervisors in Berlin or Paris, such that there is no option to wriggle. We decided all the problems with the control of fare collection passed on to law-abiding passengers, which most.

But the advantages to obtain greater Mosgortrans:



Hopefully Mosgortrans make the right conclusions from the experiment, and the turnstiles will disappear from all trams, buses and trolleybuses. You can not require people to transfer to public transport, when the trip on it turns into torture.

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Source: zyalt.livejournal.com