Word: operatorless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operatorless PRTs will sharply reduce payrolls, which amount to 60% to 70% of the operating costs of traditional transportation systems. But they leave one mass-transportation problem unsolved: Who collects the fares? The Department of Transportation is still working out a method, but is leaning toward a magnetically coded pass card that, inserted in a slot, will allow a passenger through a turnstile at the same time that his name is forwarded to a computer for later billing...
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