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Split ticketing gives artificial boost to rail patronage data

RAIL

Rhodri Clark
20 August 2018
Split tickets count as more than one journey
Split tickets count as more than one journey

 

Official statistics for rail passenger journeys do not take account of the growing use of “split ticketing”, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has confirmed to LTT.

Buying tickets for successive legs of a single train journey can save significant amounts of money. The practice has become more common in recent years following media publicity and the creation of websites dedicated to reducing travel costs by calculating the cheapest combinations of tickets for the customer’s...

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