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Manual fare collection is the practice of collectingfares manually (without the aid of anautomated machine). "Fare collection" generally refers to the collection of fares in the transport industry in return for aticket or passes to travel. Commonly used on buses and train transport systems (in the UK; inPoland, for example, buying and validating the tickets by machine is the passenger's task; the passengers enter the bus through any of the doors and buying a ticket from the driver is an option where there is no automatic selling machine or if somebody forgets to buy a ticket before), manual fare collection is increasingly becomingobsolete with the introduction ofsmart cards such as theTransport for London 'Oyster card'. However, in the face of this trend, some companies have opted to retain more traditional methods of manual fare collection to both save money (automatic equipment is expensive) and ensure reliability. In theUnited Kingdom, examples of this can be seen on the Transport for LondonHeritage lines and theFirstGroupFTR routes inYork,Leeds,Luton, andSwansea where busconductors (dubbed 'customer hosts') have returned to work. The other reason(with lowering prices of electronics, and in most cases need to buy it once) may be for Heritage routes - tradition "look", for other routes(because of quite high monthly labor cost in UK) agreements and strong unions with the tries from politics to lower the unemployment rate by making overworking in public service.
InChina, some ruralChina RailwayClassic Rail routes, such as the once-daily slow train betweenJiagedaqi and Gulian (west ofMohe) in the north end of the country, use manual fare collection onboard the train, since many stops along the line do not have ticket offices or gates. Tickets for trips at these small stops are not sold on 12306.cn, China Railway's official website. Instead, passengers present theirID cards on the train to theconductor and pay in cash or byWeChat Pay orAlipay, and the conductor will issue an e-ticket onboard the train.
A range of fare collection equipment has been developed over the last century in the United Kingdom.
A conductor may carry a cash bag in which cash is kept, thus making it easier while issuing tickets.
Perhaps the biggest development in manual fare collection is the coin dispenser, distributed by Jacques L. Galef. Mounted either in a driver's cab or on thebelt of a conductor, the coin dispenser usually takes the form of a number oftubes fitted in a line together. Each tube holds a different denomination and tends to have some sort oftrigger which will release the coin from the bottom. In Britain, the Quick-Change and Pendamatic units, for example, has labelled plasticfunnels at the top, which filter the coins into the tube. A trigger on the front of the machine then releases the coin by pushing a kicker, which holds the coin, forward in a pivotal motion. Other models in Britain, the Cambist and Metro Coin Dispensers, works on a similar principle but also have the option to be attached to the fare collection table allowing the operator (usually the bus driver) to simply slide the coins into the respective tubes. Generally, coin dispensers in the UK are configured with the£1 coin to the left (as the machine faces you), then the 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p, 2p, 1p. However, some operators have customised their dispensers to better suit their individual needs.
Other fare collecting equipment includestendertrays which can be fitted to bus driver doors to allow the customer to put the fare down. These are common on most buses in the United Kingdom now, since they facilitate quick payment and also allow for the driver to have a screen protecting his cab, yet still securely collect change (the tray is placed with a small gap above it to allow room for the drivers hand to pass through).
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