Events of note

THE development of this period in our time is that of contactless payment. This is referred to in various parts of the OCBP but recent news was from Go-Ahead.

Ticketer

Oxford Bus Company has selected Ticketer to provide new on board ticketing equipment for its entire fleet and those of its sister companies Thames Travel and Carousel Buses.  The 282 new machines include a barcode and QR code scanner, and will be set up to accept contactless debit and credit card payments as well as the ITSO smartcard scheme the key. They are expected to be rolled out to vehicles early in 2017.

Phil Southall said: ‘We’ve been using Ticketer’s hand held ticketing equipment for the past two years to support our express coach operations and have been really impressed with how it’s performed. We’ve looked across the market and believe no other supplier can match Ticketer’s offering of cutting edge on-bus hardware and cloud based, real time back office reporting. What’s more, as an organisation they are very good at listening to their customers to help shape future developments, and so it was an easy decision to make to partner with them.’

Ticketer Managing Director John Clarfelt said: ‘We are absolutely thrilled to have been successful in winning such a prestigious contract and delighted to be working more widely with Oxford Bus Company. They have a very exciting vision for the future, and we are really looking forward to working in partnership with them to deliver on that vision over the coming years.’

Reviews

Little London Transport - London Buses

 

I have something that may be of interest to some of your readers of the Oxford Bus Page. For the past year I have been putting some photo books together with the help of some other photo collaborators on a range of London related transport, one of which being London's Buses. But with a twist being that the vehicle history is all done in model form. The book is now available on Amazon in both Kindle and Print format....unfortunately the print version is currently quite expensive due to production costs and Amazon's hefty cut but looking into ways of getting this reduced.

Not only does the book includes London Buses, but also ones in the surrounding counties which is where I feel it might attract interest from your readers. I've attached some sample photos which show locations and vehicles from Aylesbury, Amersham, and St Albans which include vehicles from London Transport, London Country, Red Rover, The Shires and Yellow Bus.

Below our links to the book on Amazon, let me know if you need any more info and no worries if not interested in adding to your page:

http://amzn.eu/0XhP1f7

Kind regards

Paul.

   
Some pictures of the models featured in the book.