Budapest Transport To Introduce E-Tickets From 2016
- 18 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
The Budapest Transport Company (BKV) expects the number of fare dodgers to drop significantly once it introduces e-ticketing at the end of the year, business daily Napi Gazdaság said. Last year, the company spent 1.95 billion forints (EUR 6.4m) on increasing the number of security staff and 500 million on boosting inspection staff.
BKV employed around 440 inspectors full time and 400 security guards.
As a result, the number of people caught travelling without a valid ticket rose from 295,000 in 2013 to over 363,000 last year.
Revenues from fines exceeded one billion forints in 2014.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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