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Population: Unkown
Latitude: 24.927931
Longitude: 41.25565
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myki ( /ˈmaɪ.kiː/ MY-kee) is a contactless smartcard ticketing system being rolled-out on public transport in Victoria, Australia. myki is replacing the Metcard ticketing system in metropolitan Melbourne, ticketing systems on buses in some regional towns, and V/Line tickets for regional Victoria. The myki card is a re-usable card which stores value which is used to pay public transport fares.
myki is valid for travel on all metropolitan train, tram and bus services, including some V/Line services; on regional bus services in Geelong (including the Bellarine Peninsula), Ballarat, Bendigo, Seymour, Moe, Morwell, Traralgon and Warragul.
The initial metropolitan roll-out for myki began on Tuesday 29 December 2009, seeing myki valid for travel on Melbourne metropolitan train services. On Sunday 25 July 2010, myki coverage was extended to cover Melbourne metropolitan bus and tram services. No date has yet been announced for use on regional train and bus services. It is intended that the Skybus Super Shuttle Melbourne Airport service (with its own, premium fares) will also accept myki when the system is fully operational.
The myki system is provided by Kamco (Keane Australia Micropayment Consortium), a wholly owned subsidiary of the American company Keane Inc, (owned by NTT Data as of 3 January 2011 (2011 -01-03)[update]) and as of 12 July 2005 (2005 -07-12)[update], an alliance of Keane Australia, Ascom, ERG, and Giesecke & Devrient Australasia (G&D).
In metropolitan Melbourne, myki fares continue to be based on the time and zone fares used under the Metcard system with the exception of the CitySaver fare type which has been dropped from myki. Rechargeable myki cards store an amount of "myki money", which is deducted automatically as the card passes the touch on and touch off points. The system adjusts for caps at "2 hour" and "daily" marks, and for other caps such as those that apply on weekends, early mornings, or for seniors. Regular commuters can also purchase and store on their myki a "myki pass", similar to the Metcard range of Weekly, Monthly, Half Yearly and Yearly tickets.
"Touching on" just requires the user to hold the Myki card on the reader and waiting until it reacts. Swiping or waving the card over the reader may not result in the card being recognised, as it is not a swipe card system. After "touching on", Myki readers at stations and on trams and buses display your current Myki balance together with "Touch On successful". When touching on an older style MetCard gate at stations, you hear a beep, the gates open and the screen displays "CSC PASS" (Contactless Smart Card). At trip end users also need to "Touch off".
Privacy: it clear that the movements of card users can be tracked as indicated by the usage information supplied on customer accounts.
While myki is being rolled out, myki cards and top-ups can be purchased from a limited number of outlets. myki cards can be purchased from:
The myki card as sold has no value as a fare and so must be "topped up" in order to pay any fare.
Cards can be topped up at all the locations above except for the MetShop and from staff at station ticket windows. Cards can also be topped up at using topup machines, which are found at all train stations (although not on all platforms), as well as some tram stops. There is a minimum topup amount of $1, and a maximum amount of $250, or 34 coins, per transaction.
A myki account can be linked to a bank account or credit card to automatically top up when the stored value reaches a certain level.
As customers travel with myki they touch on at the beginning of their journey and touch off at the end at fare payment devices called myki card readers.
If myki is not touched off at the completion of a journey a default fare is charged. On trains, this is a 2 hour Zone 1 + 2 fare and on trams it's a 2 hour Zone 1 fare. On buses, during transition from Metcard, the default fare is the 2 hour fare for the zone touched on in, after transition it will be the 2 hour fare from where the myki was touched on to the services destination. The equivalent of touching off at the end of a journey is necessary for some rail journeys (i.e. inserting Metcard at stations with barriers). Commuters using myki on trams do not need to touch off unless traveling in the zone 1+2 overlap boundary of the tram network where users must touch off to get the cheaper 2 hour Zone 2 fare.
A myki can be either anonymous or registered. The TTA requires personal details when applying for an anonymous myki but claim no personal information about the user kept by the TTA after 30 days. Registered myki will have some information about the user kept by the TTA. myki cards may also be issued for concession or full fare passengers, according to their concessional status. There is also the option of purchasing a temporary, disposable short term ticket which is valid for travel for up to three hours, being the hour the ticket is purchased plus the next two (for example, a ticket purchased at 12:05pm would be valid from 12:05pm to 3:00pm)) or, if purchased after 6:00pm, valid until 3:00 am the following day or for one day only. Short term tickets are not currently available in metropolitan Melbourne as 2 hour and daily Metcards are available.
Note: Since takeover of the "myki" project by the Baillieu government in Victoria, this form of ticket has been stockpiled and is not planned to be sold.
The myki system is designed to calculate the best fare for a commuter based on the amount of use. Thus, for example, once a card is used during more than one 2-hour period in a day it will be charged as a daily fare, rather than multiple 2-hourly fares. myki also applies other available caps or cheaper fares including Weekend/Public Holiday Daily ($3.30) and Seniors Daily ($3.60) caps. This best fare system applies up to daily fares.
A longer period of 7 days or 28–365 days can be pre-loaded onto the card as a myki pass prior to travel. If purchasing a 325 day plus myki pass, the days above 325 are free of charge.
A default fare will apply if the myki is not touched off at the end of the journey. Default fares are:
Thousands of Victorians have found problems with the accuracy of their myki bills by using the site mykileaks.org. That site has reported that errors were found in over a third of the 2700 statements that were checked on their site.. In October 2011, 13% of the statements submitted to the site showed overcharges.
The Public Transport Ombudsman's annual report showed in the past year, complaints over myki has risen 33 per cent in the past year over such issues as poor customer service, inability to access online statements and overcharging.
A roaming discovery centre, a specially designed semi-trailer is touring various locations throughout Victoria for public and staff familiarisation.
A second stationary discovery centre is located at Southern Cross Station. It was opened by Minister for Transport, Lynne Kosky on Thursday, 8 March 2007. The centre was then open to the general public from Friday, 9 March 2007.
According to Minister Kosky's announcement, the site at Southern Cross Station includes "... a series of interactive, visual, auditory and tactile activities including staff demonstrations, DVD displays and interactive learning experiences." The Southern Cross Station centre is open 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday, and 10am-4pm on weekends. The site costs $100,000 a year to rent from the station authority.
The system currently has the following benefits:
Work on a replacement public ticketing system in Victoria commenced in late 2002 when the Department of Infrastructure erected a display of smartcard ticketing systems by various vendors were put on display at Flinders Street Station. In June 2003 the Transport Ticketing Authority was established to procure and manage a new system, with a request for tenders for what was then called the 'New Ticketing Solution' were released in July 2004.
The request for tender closed in October 2004 and ten tender offers were received from six bidders, with four bids short-listed in December 2004. In March 2005 two companies had been short-listed for the final stage of the tender process: Keane Corporation (with Ascom and Downer Engineering) and Manta.T (with ADI Limited, MTR Corporation and Thales).
On 12 July 2005 the Kamco consortium was selected to develop the system, winning a $494 million contract due for completion by 2007. The consortium was made up of Keane Inc, Ascom, ERG, and Giesecke & Devrient Australasia. The tender process was the subject of a number of probity concerns in December 2007, with the Victorian Auditor-General Des Pearson requesting police investigate the leak of tender documents. Draft reports from the Auditor-General's investigation referred to backdated documents and inconsistent treatment of bidders, but independent reports by Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Avanti Consulting in 2005, as well as the Victorian Auditor-General found that the integrity of the tender process had not been compromised.
In 2007, serious probity issues were raised when it was revealed that TTA boss Vivian Miners, who owned shares in the winning bidder had also become the highest paid bureaucrat, earning A$550,000 a year.
The system began with a pilot program, that was due to begin in early 2007, but was delayed by approximately a year. More than 20,000 pieces of equipment have since been installed, with civil engineering works continuing.
In February 2008 Victorian Public Transport Minister Lynne Kosky announced that the full roll out of the system would not begin until the end of the year. By March the same year, the minister said that the system would not be operational until 2010. In April 2008, the Transport Ticketing Authority announced that it had stopped paying service payments to the Kamco consortium after April 2007, as a result of the project not being delivered on schedule.
The first field trial of myki was held on the Geelong bus network in late 2007. The trial identified problems with "front office" computer software. In May 2008 Kamco conducted Regional Bus Pilot 1 in Geelong, where ninety percent of tests were passed. According to Kamco's report on Regional Bus Pilot 1, it demonstrated "Essential onbus activities such as scan on and scan off, top up myki, purchase of short-term tickets using cash or myki money, driver log on / off, route and shift selection and GPS connectivity and accuracy performed well. Back office processes and operational procedures such as end-to-end data transaction flows, generation of reports, training, communications, installation and commissioning were generally good. The operator (McHarry's Buslines) was pleased with the NTS training, performance and ease of use of the myki solution." Further field tests across other transport modes during the second half of 2008, including an additional test on regional buses were planned.
Further probity issues were raised when it was revealed the new myki boss Garry Thwaites was married to the probity auditor for the original tender. Conflict of interest was denied by public transport minister Lynne Kosky.
In August 2008 testing began on the Melbourne suburban train and tram networks. The train tests involved Kamco staff at East Camberwell, Canterbury, Chatham and Mont Albert stations, while on trams special services on route 86 not open to normal fare-paying passengers were used. These tests were all single mode, with multi-modal trips to be tried at a later date.
On 12 December 2008 myki went on sale to the general public on four bus routes in Geelong, and on 2 March 2009 all bus routes in the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula area were completely switched to myki.
In April 2009 all bus services in Ballarat, Bendigo and Seymour were converted to myki. In May 2009 all bus services in the Latrobe Valley towns of Moe, Morwell, Traralgon and Warragul were operating with myki equipment, the last regional area to be converted.
In May 2009 installation of myki readers began in metropolitan Melbourne trams, and in June 2009 the first myki vending machines appeared at metropolitan rail stations, with buses to follow. 17,000 pieces of equipment are to be installed as part of the rollout, with up to 23 pieces being installed per tram, and 2700 pieces to be installed across the train network's 217 stations.
From 29 December 2009, myki became valid for travel on all metropolitan train services (but not trams and buses), in a politically driven move to meet a promise by Transport Minister Lynne Kosky and Premier John Brumby to have the system working by the end of 2009. The limited rollout was said to be due to reliability problems with the equipment on Melbourne's trams and buses. It was reported that the use of myki on trams was being halted by signal drop-outs related to the heavy steel construction of the trams, which hinders the wireless communications required, with the overhead electrical systems also possibly having a detrimental effect on performance. New Transport Minister Martin Pakula stated that another major problem still affecting trams is "canyoning", in which trams regularly drop out of remote communication with a central server because of tall city buildings. One source close to the myki project said the government had considered installing remote devices on tall CBD buildings to improve communications with all devices in the city centre.
After the initial launch tickets could only be purchased online or from six regional cities where myki was already in use, further limiting the number of commuters able to use the system. 24 hours after the launch over 14,000 commuters had registered online for their free myki.
On 10 February 2010 the Minister for Public Transport replaced Gary Thwaites, chief executive of the Transport Ticketing Authority (TTA), with Bernie Carolan, head of Metlink.
In July 2010 it was announced that the government had been forced to junk almost 500,000 pamphlets on how to use myki because they were out of date. They contained redundant information on how to use the more recently scrapped city saver fare, and a list of card retail outlets that was current in 2009.
On Sunday 25 July 2010, myki became available for use on Metropolitan and suburban buses and trams.
On 28 December 2010, the newly elected Liberal/National state government announced that it would halt any further rollout of myki (including V/Line usage, card top-ups via bus drivers, and retail outlet sales, until an independent audit was completed on the state of the current system. A decision was to be made to either stay with Metcard and scrap the myki system, modify the system, scale back the rollout, or continue the rollout as initially planned. In June 2011 it was confirmed that myki would continue operation. However short-term tickets would not be introduced in metropolitan Melbourne, and would be abolished on regional city bus systems where they have been in use since Myki's introduction.
Metcards will no longer be available after December 2012. There have been no more suggestions that the myki system should be scrapped, but users have asked that myki be tweaked before it becomes the only fare system for Melbourne. A survey conducted by the Transport Department found that users like myki's ease of use but some complained about the time taken to touch on and off, and the inadequate provision of information about the myki system. A survey conducted by the RACV found that users like myki's ease of purchasing but the time taken to touch on and off was a major negative. The most requested improvement was for more flexibility in the system. Specifically, users want to be able to purchase single-use tickets.
The myki ticketing system has been criticised on a number of grounds:
As was the case with the introduction of the Metcard system, there have been widespread reports of damage to myki equipment - with up to 60% of machines being targeted by vandals. Damage to display screens on fare payment devices and card vending machines has been caused by heavy objects being used to smash them, often rendering the displays unusable. The most common form of vandalism is through marker pens obscuring screen elements and off-screen instructions or by scratching the screens with a sharp object.
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