Talk:Oyster card
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Oyster card was the selected article of the London Transport Portal between 20th December 2006 - 10th January 2007. |
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[edit] Photos and pics
Any chance of a pic of the Oyster reader and perhaps an Oyster card actually being used on a reader? Ian Tindale 14:27, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Charges when user forgets to swipe out
The article says that the user gets charged a £4 or £5 fare if they forget to swipe out. It also says that the maximum charge for a day is calculated so as not to exceed the price of a Travelcard. What I'm wondering, and the article should make clear, is if the second point applies when the user forgets to swipe out? Let's say they do that twice in a day, the penalty fare *2 is likely to be more than the price of a Travelcard. How much do they pay? --kingboyk 13:47, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- As far as I understand it, the penalty fare applies to each "unresolved journey" but there may be a cap on that. It's independent of the calculation for travelcards, which is based only on "legitimate" fares. I'm not going to change the article though, because I'd like to see the info referenced from the official terms & conditions, which I don't have to hand. – Kieran T (talk) 18:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Architecture
Would it be possible for anyone who knows about the subject to write about the technical architecture? What intelligence is there in a station gate line? What further machinery acts as a comms concentrator in a station? What communications network is used? Where is the central database? What software is it made out of? Who built it? How long did it take? How do non-networked validators, eg on buses, work? The article as it stands describes the user experience well, but is very thin on the guts of this system. In my opinion it's very reliable and I'd be interested to learn how that was achieved. David Colver 20:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
http://rfid.idtechex.com/knowledgebase/en/casestudy.asp?freefromsection=122 has a useful technical overview. Perhaps someone could abstract the interesting data into this wikipedia page?
Kim SJ 11:37, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
