Originally posted by tranquilice:except for boarding service 170 at singapore customs towards queen st where you can board from both entry and exit doors. Also, there were 1 or 2 exception cases where the bus captain has allowed passengers to board the bus from the exit door before when the people standing on the bus just refuse to move to the rear.
"No [b]Entry" mode at BXP reader?! As we all know, entry is not allowed from the rear doors. "No Exit" is more appropriate.
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I've seen service 806 with pax boarding from the first exit using the ez-link readers. There was also once a service 962 bus was too full to allow passengers to board from front, the driver switched the exit readers to "ENTRY" so the remaining 2 pax can board from the rear.Originally posted by ^tamago^:actually i don't know how to describe this "No Entry" mode.. it jus displays a circle with a line across the horizontal diameter.. jus like the "No Entry" red-and-white circles seen on road signages in Singapore.. u can take it as being disabled for card scans..
regarding boarding from rear doors, this is also done at Yishun Int feeder services to speed up boarding, usually on Svcs 804 and 806.. before ez-link they used mobile validators.. and it used to be so at Ang Mo Kio feeder svcs 261 and 266 with a mobile validator years ago before they shifted to the temporary interchange..
You can see this circle on Changi Airport services, when the buses stop for a while at Terminal 2. Yes, it means no card scan when the circle is displayed.Originally posted by ^tamago^:actually i don't know how to describe this "No Entry" mode.. it jus displays a circle with a line across the horizontal diameter.. jus like the "No Entry" red-and-white circles seen on road signages in Singapore.. u can take it as being disabled for card scans
Correct, the circle with horizontal line. The ez-link readers are programmable to allow all sorts of actions, from entry to rear door, to banning exit, etc.Originally posted by tranquilice:You can see this circle on Changi Airport services, when the buses stop for a while at Terminal 2. Yes, it means no card scan when the circle is displayed.
i was sitting behind the driver and the IDFC was at STAGE 14.0.. then when it passed by a bus stop with bus bay along West Coast Rd very quickly the IDFC display still showed STAGE 14.0 until it stopped at the next bus bay, where the IDFC immediately updated to STAGE 15.0 and enabled the readers.. prior to that even though the fare stage is not updated, the BXPs are disabled so you can't scan..Originally posted by SBS9818A:tamago, the system should update itself automatically regardless of whether the bus goes into the bus bay or not! Then, what's the point? Passengers will begin underpaying now is it thanks to the non-update, and SBST / TIBS will use it to jack up fares again!
At TPY Int, they used it on Svc 237 and 238 at the OLD int @ Blk 189 before moving to the temp one at TP Town Park. At the temp one, I think they used it on rare occasions on Svc 238.Originally posted by ^tamago^:before ez-link they used mobile validators.. and it used to be so at Ang Mo Kio feeder svcs 261 and 266 with a mobile validator years ago before they shifted to the temporary interchange..
Do agree that updating the fare stages on feeder services is redundant, AFAIK SBS 3693G has VLS installed, not sure about the rest. All my Sv. 88 3-axle VOs do.Originally posted by ^tamago^:was VLS on? to check, see the IDFC top-right corner to make sure the upper of the 2 LEDs is green not red.. the lower LED indicates green if it is air-con and red if it is NAC..
if VLS is on and feeder services follow as said, then prob it means the readers are not disabled between stops on feeders.. actually quite logical since it is flat fare..
if VLS is off then it looks just like the other feeder services, where some driver jus dun update the stage since it is redundant..
Originally posted by off_service:i can assure you this is normal and exactly what i saw on 544E.. the updating of fare stage is done just before the bus reaches the stop and if it skips the stop, i.e. the door(s) are not opened or closed, then it will continue for a while before it disables the BXP and sets BEP to "ENTRY" mode when it detects that it is no longer near the stop..
The VLS system on TIB 593 M seems to have bug in it. The auto update of farestages sometimes begin a little earlier and after the auto update, it won't be set back to to disbled until any of the doors open and close again.
No. The Exit reader will NOT be disabled until any of the door open and close for TIB 593 M. The reader is enabled for well over a minute along Gambas Ave.Originally posted by ^tamago^:i can assure you this is normal and exactly what i saw on 544E.. the updating of fare stage is done just before the bus reaches the stop and if it skips the stop, i.e. the door(s) are not opened or closed, then it will continue for a while before it disables the BXP and sets BEP to "ENTRY" mode when it detects that it is no longer near the stop..
Correct, that is Sv. 962Originally posted by ^tamago^:then that sounds like a bug.. Svc 962? i'll try it out soon if i'm near there..
please take note that 238 has an extra dash set on some buses eg SBS32. i dun know what that extra fitting is for..maybe part of this VLS trial. same goes for service 54 buses. could be GPS and not VLSOriginally posted by service_238:At TPY Int, they used it on Svc 237 and 238 at the OLD int @ Blk 189 before moving to the temp one at TP Town Park. At the temp one, I think they used it on rare occasions on Svc 238.
Let me share one of my experiences on this VLS thingy...
While analysing Svc 238 late last month, i found out that the drivers on this service need not update the fare stage whereas other services like Svc 143 or 31 requires the drivers to update the fare stages at every stop. Svc 238 doesnt have the 'no entry' sign on the ezlink readers as it doesnt serve any practical use on the service unless SBST wanna analyse where the passengers alight and board for this service.![]()
That should be for the VLS system. Only SBST buses have them.Originally posted by xin1jun2:please take note that 238 has an extra dash set on some buses eg SBS32. i dun know what that extra fitting is for..maybe part of this VLS trial. same goes for service 54 buses. could be GPS and not VLS
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Originally posted by service_238:Oh, the one on Sv. 54 and Sv. 24?
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I noticed that most or all of the 238 buses has an extra 'machine' behind the ezlink machine at the driver's seat. It is very near the windscreen. What is that thing used for?[/b]
I noticed the BEEP sound when the drivers are approaching a bus stop, but not every bus stop. So i reckon it is not used to update fare stages..Originally posted by ^tamago^:the beige device (some blue, esp. on Svc 54 buses) is exclusive to SBST, most probably for aiding the drivers in adhering to the schedule.. this in-house device actually beeped a few times loudly when Svc 88 buses sped too fast along TPE.. and it knows whether the doors are opened or closed, from what i had observed from the LCD display of the beige device on Svc 88.. it doesn't look like part of VLS since TIBS buses doesn't need that to operate their VLS on IDFCs.. probably the beige device includes a common GPS that VLS uses also.. for TIBS the GPS, supplied by ERG Transit Systems Australia (the one that supplied ez-link systems), is a stainless steel device fitted behind the driver's seat on O405s..
no, not that soft mid-pitch beep from the IDFC, which is sometimes inaudible.. i still have no idea what it does, since it does not follow a fixed pattern.. but buses with VLS do not have the IDFC beep and when i enquired about this soft IDFC beep from the 544E VLS bus driver he didn't know about it also..Originally posted by service_238:I noticed the BEEP sound when the drivers are approaching a bus stop, but not every bus stop. So i reckon it is not used to update fare stages..