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The price cap for Oyster card users was set at the price of an equivalent one-day, unlimited-ride Travelcard. [7] TfL has expanded its fare capping system since its introduction, adding 7-day caps and contactless bank card support in 2014. [3]: 11 Another early implementation of fare capping in Europe is in Dublin, starting in 2012.
The daily cap is £8.10 within zones 1-2 and £14.90 within zones 1–6, provided no maximum fares are incurred for failure to touch in or out, or for touching in or out at the same station. [79] A lower cap of £5.25 applies if the day's journeys are restricted to buses and trams only. [ 80 ]
Fare zone 4 is an outer zone of Transport for London's zonal fare system used for calculating the price of tickets for travel on the London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway [1] and, since 2007, on National Rail services. [2]
Unlike zones 2–6, they do not form complete rings around London. As of January 2013, there were eight National Rail stations outside the nine numbered fare zones, where Oyster card pay as you go is permitted and fares are set by the train operating companies .
A quarterly survey known as the Travelcard Diary Survey is undertaken, where travelcard holders are asked to record all the bus, rail and tube trips they have made using their travelcard. Both "in-boundary" and "out-boundary" (i.e. Travelcards in or outside the zonal areas) are surveyed, as well as day and monthly, weekly and annual Travelcards.
Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in London, United Kingdom. [2]TfL is the successor organization of the London Passenger Transport Board, which was established in 1933, and several other bodies in the intervening years.
Listed for each of the 272 stations are the lines serving it, local authority, the fare zone in which it is located, the date it and any earlier main line service opened, previous names and passenger usage statistics in millions per year.
Since TfL could not afford 250 new trains and upgraded signalling, it decided to buy only 94 trains, for the Piccadilly line, and relegate future train purchases to contract options. [37] [38] [11] In 2019, TfL raised £1 billion to buy the Piccadilly line trains by selling and leasing back Class 345 Elizabeth line trains. [39]