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Travelers to Ireland

• One in three euro spent in Ireland by overseas visitors were spent in Dublin. Mainland Europe accounted for a higher proportion of revenue (43%) than visits (39%).
• While Dublin saw significant growth through the early years of the century, the number of overseas visitors, in particular, British visitors has sharply declined in recent years due to economic uncertainty and consequent changes in travel behaviour.
• British Visitors
  The British market is fairly evenly divided between holidaymakers, those travelling on business and visits to friends and family. They tend to arrive by air and are well spread throughout the year. Almost half of British holidaymakers travel to Dublin during the first and last quarters of the year and nine in ten arrive by air. They tend to stay exclusively in Dublin - two in five say they are on a city break and almost two-thirds are on a Dublin Break (staying only in Dublin for a maximum of three nights). In keeping with this, few use a car and tend to get around the city on foot and on public transport.
• Mainland European Visitors
  More than half of European visitors to Dublin are on holiday and almost a quarter are visiting friends or family. Their is the usual form of access to Dublin and more than half of European visitors arrive between May and September. They are less likely to travel outside of Dublin and tend to be on their first visit to Ireland. More than half are under 35 years of age and they travel either on their own or as couples.
• European Holidaymakers
  The months of June to September attract almost three in five European holidaymakers and they tend to arrive in Dublin by air. Half describe their holiday as a city break and one in five are on a Dublin Break (staying only in Dublin for a maximum of three nights).
  Less than a third use a car while in Ireland, preferring to walk or use public transport. As air travel is the preferred form of access, it follows that most of those who use a car hire one (26%). The majority (66%) are white collar workers and more than half are under 35 years of age. While the majority (57%) described. themselves as single, the largest proportion (40%) are travelling as couples. They are most likely to be on their first visit to Ireland and are independent travellers.
• North American Visitors
  Two thirds of North American visitors to Dublin are on holiday and almost half come to Ireland between June and September. A further quarter were either on business or visiting family or friends. Three in five arrive direct by air on transatlantic routes, with the remainder primarily arriving by air from Britain or Mainland Europe and a minority coming by sea.Unlike British or other European visitors, they tend to travel around the country with more than a third also spending at least one night in the South West. Almost two thirds are on their first visit to Ireland while a significant 30% are repeat visitor and more than half travel alone. Around a quarter are managers or professionals and one in five is aged between 45 and 54 years. Two-thirds arrive between May and September and most arrive by air, a slightly higher proportion (59%) arriving directly from North America and 40% travelling through Britain or Europe.
  Almost three-quarters of North American holidaymakers (73%) stay in hotels which account for almost two-thirds of North American holiday nights. They have a strong tendency to explore the rest of the country with almost half visiting the South West. Two in five describe their holiday as a combination of a city and countryside holiday. Over one third hire a car during their holiday and one in five take a coach tour involving an overnight. Almost a third (31%) are on some form of package which is a relatively high proportion compared to our other markets. Four out of five are in Ireland for the first time and almost half (45%) travel as couples.

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• As of 3 April 2012 almost 80,000 Leap Cards in circulation.  More than 2,000Cards being sold per week.

• Up to 3 April 2012, 2,444,954 journeys have been taken.

• A typical week sees over 200,000 journeys being completed using Leap.

• Total value topped up to end March 2012: €4.9 million.

• Total value used in travel to end March 2012: €4.2 million.

• Dublin Bus App receiving over 100,000 separate real-time information requests on a daily basis.

• More than 82,000 I-phone users and 35,000 android users have downloaded the Dublin Bus app so far.

• over 30,000 hits on Dublin Bus’s real time passenger information web-page a day.

• You can get a Leap Card from any of the 400 Leap Card Agents.

  

Using 2009 Data.

• 7600000 Visitors to Ireland in 2009
• 6400000 are foreign visitors
• GB 1600000
• USA 870000
• GER 300000
• FRA 213000
• ITA 190000

Favorite Destinations are - 1. Dublin

   2. South West Ireland

   3. West of Ireland.

   4. Shannon Region

   5. South East Ireland

Average Spending: Europeans -

• 34% Food & beverages
• 32% B& B
• 16% Shopping
• 8% Internal transport
• 4% Sightseeing & entertainment

Average Spending: USA -

• 31% Food & beverages
• 28% B& B
• 18% Shopping
• 10% Internal transport
• 6% Sightseeing & entertainment

Typical Vacationers to Ireland:

• 20% under 25 years

• 18% 25 - 34 years
• 17% 35 - 44 years
• 44% over 44 years

Travel Groups:

• 41% - Couples
• 24% - Individuals
• 18% - Families
• 17% - Other adult groups

Europeans :

46% on food/drink/internal transport & sight seeing & entertainment

30% in guesthouses/B&B’s/ Hostels & Hotels

USA:

47% on food/drink/internal transport & sight seeing & entertainment

59% in guesthouses/B&B’s/ Hostels & Hotels

Activities:

Top 10:

1. Dublin Zoo
2. Pheonix Park
3. St Auodens CHurch
4. Dublin Castle
5. Dublinia
6. Chester Beatty Library
7. National Museul
8. Trinity
9. Temple Bar
10. The Jeanie Johnston

Transport Methods:

1. Bus
2. Luas
3. Dart
4. Private/ Car hire

London Travel Card

London Travelcard

Getting around on London transport is made easy when you use a London Travelcard - add one to your London Pass order and create the complete sightseeing package!
London Public Transport Network is one of the biggest in the world and might seem little intimidating to new visitors. With access to Buses, Trams, National Rail services and the famous London Underground or ‘tube’ a day’s travel can be very expensive.
You can add a London Travelcard to every London Pass and makes your sightseeing experience more relaxing and cost efficent.

The benefits of a London Travelcard include:

• Unlimited journeys on all London Underground, Buses, Trams, Docklands Light Rail, Over-ground Trains and National Rail Services within zones 1 – 6.

• A hassle free day as you don't need to buy lots of different tickets – the travelcard includes everything you will need.

• When you buy a 6 day London Pass with Travel you get a 7 day Travelcard - that's a whole extra day for free.

Make huge savings as a single Underground ticket bought in London costs £4.00, a bus ticket is £2.20 so after 2 or 3 journeys you will be saving money.

The London Pass with Travel is a must for anyone sightseeing in London as the complete package will save you time and money, and it will make your sightseeing experience hassle free.
Find out more about how the London Pass works or check out all the attractions in London included on the Pass.
"We combined the London Pass with a 7-day Travelcard and saved a bundle. The London Pass allowed us to skip the queues for most attractions we visited, more time spent actually enjoying the things we went to see. The Travelcard made using public transit very simple and saved us a ton of money. Anyone who is thinking about a London vacation should consider buying the London Pass and the Travelcard."
Steve from Nova Scotia
"We purchased the London Pass with travel before reaching Britain so that we could maximize the time we had in London to see and experience as much as possible. We were not in any way dissappointed and the preferential entrance at some of the busy venues was great. The travel portion of the pass just took away the stress of moving around as there was no cost implication to getting on the wrong bus or train (which did inevitably happen). If I ever get to visit London again, I would buy the pass again."
Ken Jensen

FareSaver Tickets - Vancouver

FareSaver Tickets are a book of ten TransLink tickets that can be used on the Bus, SeaBus or SkyTrain. They offer savings over buying single fares.
For example, buying 10 single fare tickets for 1 zone will cost you $27.50, while using FareSaver tickets costs only $21, saving 24%. On a daily basis, travel to and from work in one zone will cost you $5.50 per day paying with cash, or $4.20 using FareSaver tickets.
Each FareSaver lets you travel for up to 90 minutes across Metro Vancouver. You can hop off for errands and then hop back on again.
You can travel for one, two or three zones by Bus, SeaBus or SkyTrain. Tickets for the West Coast Express must be purchased separately as they are priced differently.

Concession Fares

Concession fares apply to children 5 to 13 years old, secondary students ages 14 to 19 with a valid GoCard, seniors 65+ with proof of age and HandyCard holders riding conventional transit. These people can travel at a reduced price.
Please note that concession fares are not valid on HandyDART. Regular adult fares apply on HandyDART regardless of age.
Children 4 years and younger ride for free when accompanied by an adult. CNIB and War Amputee pass holders also ride for free.

The Luas Leap Card scheme

Leap Card

The leap card is a form of integrated ticketing introduced in Dublin on 12 December 2011. It is a prepaid card which can be used on DART, Dublin bus, Iarnród Éireann and Luas; minimum top up for the card is currently €5.00.

The Leap card is the result of many years work by the Railway Procurement Agency to get an integrated ticketing-scheme for the public transport in Dublin city. 

Initially it only offers a pre-paid electronic wallet system to buy single trip journeys on Luas, DART / Commuter and Dublin Bus but there are plans to also offer week, month and year subscriptions on the card which could follow the in the shoes of the 80day cards used in Vancouver.

History

Public transport in the larger Dublin area is offered by several companies. Apart from several private companies and the country-wide Bus Éireann transport is offered by:

• LUAS - operating two tram-lines in the city operated by Veolia Transport
• Dublin Bus - the state owned bus service operating lines in the greater Dublin transport area
• Iarnród Éireann - the national railway company offering intercity services, Commuter and DART services.

Even though the state is owner or important stake-holder for each of these services, they all have their own ticketing scheme. Until the introduction of the Leap card you could have three non-compatible cards for travel within the limits of greater Dublin: a LUAS card to pay for individual journeys, a Dublin Bus smart-card for day, week or year tickets and an Ianrod Eireann card for DART or Commuter tickets.

Railway Procurement Agency

The Railway Procurement Agency started developing an integrated smartcard system. First plans were made at the end of the last century and initially it was planned to introduce an integrated card when the LUAS system would start to operate in 2005. The development of the new system had many delays and set-backs and the costs for the new system were far higher than budgeted.

Even though the state has a lot of influence in the different transport companies, it took the RPA until 2012 to actually introduce the new smart-card system for the general public.

The Leap card

The Leap card is usable on the bus, tram and local railway lines, it can only be used for single journeys within one of the systems. Any form of subscription/multi-day offerings are not possible with the Leap card: each company has their own system for that. One journey using two or more of above systems will require the user to buy separate 'single journeys' for each leg of the journey.

Even though tickets bought with the Leap card are cheaper then single journeys bought with cash money, using the Leap card for frequent travellers is more expensive than using the different weekly or monthly cards. There are plans however to extend the functionalities of the card, like the ability to "upload" a week, month or year-card to a Leap card.

For frequent travellers using only one system one can use the day, weekly, monthly or year-cards for the required route or system. For people who need to use two or more different systems there are several options: the LUAS offers 'combi' subscriptions to be used on LUAS and Dublin Bus.

Cost of fares

According to the operator fares bought with the Leap card are cheaper then single journeys paid with cash. For Dublin bus this is indeed true as they increased their cash paid tickets by 15-20% when the card was introduced. Until 2 January 2012 a 4-7 stage fare using Dublin Bus would have cost €1.60, with the Leap card the price is now €1.70 or €1.90 otherwise. For LUAS a single zone journey with Leap costs €1.45 while the same cash price is €1.60 or €1.70.

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A selection of the Info-Graphics I source from Dribble as part of my research.

I have chosen to show these as they are ones I felt were attractive regardless of the information they have. All designers are credited on Dribble.

SkyTrain, Vancouver BC Canada

SkyTrain

Launched in 1986, SkyTrain is the oldest and one of the longest fully-automated, driverless, rapid transit systems in the world. The Expo and Millennium SkyTrain Lines connect downtown Vancouver with the cities of Burnaby, New Westminster and Surrey. The Canada Line connects downtown Vancouver to the Vancouver International Airport (YVR) and the city of Richmond.

SkyTrain runs on a mostly elevated guideway, high above city streets, though there are a few stations located underground. The name SkyTrain is derived from the first SkyTrain line, the Expo Line.

British Columbia Rapid Transit Company Ltd. (BCRTC), on behalf of TransLink, maintains and operates two of the three SkyTrain lines in Metro Vancouver.

Both the Expo and the Millennium lines are operated out of BCRTC’s Operations and Maintenance Centre in Burnaby, BC where more than 630 dedicated staff work in the areas of administration, engineering, elevator and escalator maintenance, field operations, vehicle maintenance and wayside maintenance.

BCRTC currently serves about 250,000 passengers per weekday and has an on-time service delivery performance rating of 95.46 per cent.

                                             Fare Charges.

Here are three fare zones in Metro Vancouver. The number of zone boundaries you cross during your trip will determine your fare. Use our Fare Zone Map to find out how many zones you'll cross for your next trip. Each zone is a different colour.

Common Fare Zones

Certain designated locations of fare zones along fare zone boundaries have been classified as common to each adjacent zone. Passengers are permitted travel to/from such designated common fare zone locations for a one-zone fare.

Fare Zone Boundary between Yellow and Red zones

Passengers connecting between the following bus stops and destinations along the #28 bus route may travel for a one-zone fare:

• Kootenay Loop to Yellow Zone
• Hastings at Boundary to Burnaby/New Westminster in Red Zone
• Boundary at Lougheed to/from Yellow Zone, or to/from Burnaby/New Westminster in Red Zone
• Kincaid at Smith: to/from Burnaby/New Westminster in Red Zone
• Boundary and Vanness to/from Red Zone, by walking to/from Kingsway on Boundary Road
• Joyce Station: all Yellow Zone bus service and westbound SkyTrain service 

Regular fares are applicable for any other connections.

Fare Zone Boundary between Red and Green Zones

• Annacis Island is a Common Zone. Passengers travelling between Annacis Island and either the Red or Green zone are permitted to travel for a one-zone fare. Passengers that purchase a one-zone cash fare on Annacis Island receive a two-zone fare valid for both the Red and Green Zone.
• Passengers connecting from all bus stops on North Road between Cottonwood Avenue and the Highway #1 Overpass (including the Lougheed Mall Transit Exchange) are permitted to travel into either the Red or Green Zone for a one-zone fare.

                                                                    Canada Line