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Self-service bus ticketing system on North Shore a first for New Zealand
Life just got easier for thousands of bus commuters travelling each month along Auckland’s North Shore Bus way as they now have the option to purchase their bus tickets at self-service ticketing machines.
The machines are manufactured by a local North Shore company Cash Handling Systems (now GISL) and are installed at all three unmanned Northern Bus way Terminals.
The Auckland Regional Transport Authority [ARTA] required a reliable and user friendly self-service ticketing system also capable of handling numerous ticket types and payment structures.
The ARTA Northern Pass system offers many prepaid ticket types such as two hour, one day and seven day passes. The machines have large full colour touch screens with an easy-to-follow menu which helps for fast and efficient transactions.
Customers are also spoilt for choice when it comes to making payment. The GLOBAL eTM accepts banknotes and gives change, together with an ON-LINE Credit Card payment facility.
Only authentic banknotes are accepted and as the Credit Card transactions are processed in real time any reported stolen cards or credit limits reached are automatically rejected. The machines also take coins. ARTA’s main aim is to make ticket purchasing as easy and as painless as possible.
The GLOBAL eTM electronic ticketing system reflects ARTA’s vision of keeping their Bus way facilities at the forefront of technological development. Equipped with GPRS modems the eTM machines communicate all data in REAL TIME to a monitoring and management system.