Improve on the Ticket Vending Machine for the Railway

Abstract

The automatic ticket vending machine that referred to in this paper is innovative, either from the structure, function or principle, it is fundamentally different from the tradition vending machine. It is a combination of reading card technology in industry and business, especially designed a special answer-sheet. Each card costs RMB 0.1 Yuan or less. Passengers use the purchasing ticket card in the automatic ticket vending machine, which is the rapid and intelligent process of obtaining the ticket, and greatly reducing the time in the tradition automatic ticket vending machine.

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