Using the Railway Mobile Terminals in the Process of Validation and Vending Tickets

Autor: Marko Horvat, Mario Zagar
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Journal of Cases on Information Technology. 8:30-44
ISSN: 1548-7725
1548-7717
DOI: 10.4018/jcit.2006040102
Popis: This article describes the functional and technical side of Railways Ltd. mobile terminals project. The advantage of mobile terminals lies in the greater efficiency of railway tickets vending, the control and real-time supervision of complete process of vending tickets in the country. Mobile terminals allow railway conductors to automatically vend and verify tickets. Also, information about each sold ticket is transmitted wirelessly via GSM/GRPS in real time or near real time. The information about sold tickets is received by the central server and stored in the main database. The data are available for analysis and report making.
Databáze: OpenAIRE