Point Of Sale Terminal With Thermal Printer

On a typical journey by road, bus or tram, passengers will be boarding and alighting at various stops and stations along the route in a seemingly random fashion. Each possibility will have its own fare, and this fare might vary over the course of a day, week or season, and certain passengers will be entitled to concessions or have vouchers and passes that let them travel without a ticket. Imagine all the mathematical possibilities each passenger could inflict upon the ill-prepared ticket vendor.

Of course, a list of fare permutations can be worked out with a small booklet, but for the average transport operator, printing a booklet for every vendor for every route would be a costly exercise. And for the vendor, flicking through the booklet to find the right fare and then allocate a ticket to each passenger before they get off without paying is unlikely to happen.