BMTA panel rejects e-ticket system on city buses

[webfact]

Panel rejects e-ticket system on city buses 

 

 

The inspection committee of Bangkok Mass Transit Authority has refused to accept the e-ticket system and the cash box to be installed in the city’s bus fleet claiming that the system does not work and is unstable.

 

BMTA acting director Mrs Panida Thongsuk said Thursday that the e-ticket system and the cash box are provided under a joint venture of Chor Thavee, Jump Up and MOL Payment companies and installed on 2,600 city buses on trial basis.

 

An experiment showed that the e-ticket system was unstable and did not function properly, prompting the inspection committee to reject the system and the cash box on Tuesday, she said, adding that the BMTA would consider imposing fine on the joint venture group for its failure to install the system within June as prescribed in the contract.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/panel-rejects-e-ticket-system-on-city-buses/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-08-31

[bluesofa]

29 minutes ago, webfact said:

claiming that the system does not work and is unstable.

Are they perhaps referring to the bus drivers?

 

[Scott]

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[oldrunner]

Nothing to do with those clinking metal change thingees?

[Jimbo1964]

Funny how they seem to work in other countries.

[CLW]

Funny how they seem to work in other countries.

Probably because it must be always a "Thai" solution for everything. I'm sure there is an existing system on the market from international suppliers that could be easily modified for Thailand.

But you never know what was going on during the tender process.

By the way, any electronic engineering student in his later studies can build a system like this, just saying...