"LETTER POSTAGE PRINCIPLE 'FOR RAILROAD FARES.
"For the lasb nine months a most interesting experiment in railroad management has been going on in Hungary. Aβ a ireeulb, a new system of passenger tariffs was worked out and put into operation on the leb of August, 1889. The method adopted was that commonly known as tha Zone-tariff , system, in which the rates are fixed, not according to the number of miles travelled by the passenger, but according to the number of zones traversed or entered upon during the journey. Tickets are sold by zones, being good for all stations within the zone. The simplification of the tariff is verygreab. Under the old system the number of distinct tickets which had to be kept in every large office was nearly 700. It is now only 92. . . The most interesting thing, however, in this experiment, is the way in which the passenger traffic has increased under the stimulus of the new rates.
. . . . The receipts from the traffic under the new system were, over 18 per cent, greater than under the old. In other words, passenger traffic will respond bo lower rates, a thing some railroad managers have denied."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 166, 16 July 1890, Page 2
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