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don't have to sell tickets at all The infrastructure for selling tickets is already in place, the marginal cost of selling one extra ticket type is essentially

• kuschku 4y ago
  > Assuming you have to have at least one person working on the train anyway, for safety reasons if nothing else, having them also check tickets doesn't cost extra. That’s actually wrong, regional trains (where this ticket applies) usually have only the Lokführer driving the train, but no additional staff. Checking tickets is done purely by patrols checking trains randomly.
• BoppreH 4y ago
  > Assuming you have to have at least one person working on the train anyway, for safety reasons if nothing else, having them also check tickets doesn't cost extra. The trains are made of multiple cars without connecting doors, and the driver sits inside a locked cockpit. Tickets are currently checked by personnel that randomly patrol the trains, which are the only staff that passengers see. It's actually rare to have your ticket checked, but the fine is ~10x the price of the ticket, so it's still worth buying one.