Having difficulties with fares

[Danny McCaslin]

I am having difficulties with the fares with my transit and am trying
to figure out the easiest way to write the document. There are four
zones; zones 2 and 3 are counties, zone 1 is a city within zone 2, and
zone 4 is a city within zone 3. At first, I thought I could just use
contains_id to show price changes (fares are $2.00 for base fare, with
$0.50 added with each new zone), but I've hit a snag. My transit
charges every time you cross a zone line, not just for each zone.
(Here is a link to the fare rules: http://www.pantran.com/fares.cfm.
So, you could travel from zone 3, through zone 2, through zone 1, and
back into another part of zone 2 and you would actually be charged
$3.50, whereas using a contains_id with zones 1,2, and 3 would only
charge $3.00.

I'm at a loss for how I can make this work, other than asking my
contract to change their fare rules. Any ideas?

[Marcy]

Danny

You have some very flexible fare options with GTFS so let's see if we can solve your mystery.

Have you considered taking your fare chart that you posted http://www.pantran.com/fares.cfm

and using the stops, by city that are depicted in that chart to build the total fare for the trip without concern if it passes twice over a zone line.  Isn't that how the rider expects to pay for the trip?

Would love to know if a focus on the origin & destination pairs might work for Pantran

Marcy

[Danny McCaslin]

Thanks for your reply, Marcy.

It would work, sure. I could set all pricing stop to stop, but that's
40 stations, each with a station-to-station, which comes out to 1,600
stop-to-stop lines of code, plus recalculating any time they change
zones and changing each line, plus for every stop x stops they add in
the future, we have to add 40x lines of code. Not only is that the
long way around, but in a few years when someone else is editing this
they're going to have a ton of code to go through. So while what
you're suggesting is possible, I'm hoping for a more elegant solution.

On Dec 6, 4:30 pm, Marcy <action...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Danny
>
> You have some very flexible fare options with GTFS so let's see if we can
> solve your mystery.
>

> Have you considered taking your fare chart that you postedhttp://www.pantran.com/fares.cfm