A great air traffic problem, appeared after Icelandic volcano eruption, shows that the international Transport system has to be changed. Igor Levitin, the transport minister of Russian Federation, proposed to introduce an unified ticket for all transports in Europe.
While the Europeans think, the Yaroslavl locals do! In May an Integrated Transport Card is going to be introdused. It will replace paper tickets of all kinds of urban transport. By the way, special smart-cards for trolleys and trams already excist. One more step in this direction — combined two-kinds cards. Bus+trolley and trolley+tram are the most popular types. Plastic tickets have the same price as the paper ones. You are only have to overpay for the card itself — 38 rubles. Then just refill it.
Local government is very satisfied with the new tickets. They help to track the number of passengers due to different parts of the day. This information can be used to correct the scheldure of urban transport. But the main point is profit increment, of cource.
(via NTM)
