Which is the difference between these objects?

• the windows forms timers doesn't work from a thread;

• the windows forms timers runs in the same thread of the windows forms;

References

• a comparison of the timer classes

• another comparison and complete tutorial

In all of the excitement that surrounds the beginning of a new lifestyle, many newbie full-timers miss the crucial difference between purchasing an auto insurance policy and a full- timer RV insurance policy from an RV specialist insurance agency. They neglect to get the personal liability coverage that comes with full-timer RV insurance, and that’s the single costliest insurance mistake that new full-timers can make.

Proper Full-Timer RV Insurance Includes Personal Liability Coverage

Your new RV is your new home. You - and others - will hang out, eat, play cards, and visit in and around it. Just like in your home, you are personally liable for any injuries that occur while on your property. An auto insurance policy is not designed to give you a "floating home-owner's policy" that travels with you wherever you go. It simply can’t adapt to covering the ongoing liability conditions that put you at financial risk when you’re a full-time RVer.

If your RV park neighbor happens to break his ankle coming down the stairs of your RV and he doesn't have good health insurance, you could be held legally liable for the cost of his injury. If you only had standard auto insurance coverage, you’re suddenly caught in some messy gray area that could find you arguing with adjustors and ultimately paying enormous medical bills out of pocket.

Purchasing auto insurance for your full-time RV rig leaves you grossly underinsured, as it doesn’t include comprehensive personal liability coverage. As you’re talking with your insurance agent be sure to question them thoroughly about the coverage they’re selling you. If it doesn’t include comprehensive personal liability coverage, then you need to find another plan, or even another agency.

In Addition to Personal Liability Coverage There’s Emergency Expense Coverage

Your new RV is your new home, and when you’re living in a home your life stops when it becomes uninhabitable. Standard auto insurance coverage policies can’t cover the total cost of accidents or breakdowns that require extensive hotel stays, multiple meals on the road, or even car rental while you wait for that special part to make its way across the country.

Specialty RV insurance for full-timers does cover those on-the-road emergency expenses, as the packages are designed with the specialty needs of full-timers in mind. Unless you have budgeted a month's worth of on-the-road eating, living, and car rental expenses then you should steer well clear of a simple auto insurance plan for your RV. Designated full- timer RV insurance saves you the enormous unexpected side costs of emergency breakdown situations.

Experience the Joys of Full-Timing with Full-Time Insurance

The joys of the full-time RV lifestyle are many: you’ll be meeting new friends, exploring new states, and discovering what freedom really means.

Don't make the number one insurance mistake of new full-timers. Give yourself and your travel partner the peace of knowing that all the eventualities of the full-time RV lifestyle are covered in your insurance. Saving money by purchasing auto insurance instead of full-time RV insurance could be one of your costliest RV mistakes.

http://www.rv-insurance-coverage.com

I need to make sure I take a break every hour at least.  I got a kitchen timer from the dollar store and that was working well - kind of  noisy - tick, tock - but it did the job.  Problem is, I have one child who is a "gotta pick it up and touch it, whatever it is" type of kid.  When he is allowed in my office to use the computer, anything within his reach is fair game.  He touches it, feels it, rolls it in his fingers and inevitably he takes it with him wherever that may be.

After too many searches for the timer I decided there must be a computerized way to tell me to take a break - I am a Virtual Assistant and using the computer is what I do -  there must be a product out there that can do the same job for me  as my timer - but one where it can't be carried away by my son.

I found several types of break reminder programs online, some have free trial versions, then you pay a nominal fee and some are freeware.  Checking reviews, I found one to try out - QuickPause.  So far it has worked really well - I can set it to my requirements and I really try to follow its lead and take that break. Breaks that so many studies say is necessary for people who work on computers daily. Your wrists, fingers, eyes, back, legs, neck and more can all be affected by not taking a break.

I have it set for a 15 second micro pause every 20 minutes - to get a wrist and eye break - and a 10 minute rest break every hour.  It also can track the amount of time I actually use my keyboard, which is eye opening to see.

Having a timer go off on a regular basis, I find makes me realize how much time I spend on certain tasks - especially when I am not doing something for a client and have my time tracking program running.

Whether you choose a noisy timer, an egg timer, a sand timer or a  timer program - pick one that works for you and listen to the reminders - take your break - your body and mind will thank you in the long run.

and also hits to my site.

I know people who go to a job, work 8 hours (or whatever they can get away with so it might be less), come home, have supper when they feel like it and sit in front of the TV or video game because they would have nothing else to do.   Boy! My mind is always going 100 miles an hour coming up with things I should be, want be, or could be doing.  I have so many ideas, want to be in so much social networking, accomplish so many projects I some times get bogged down and spin in circles.

Organization is key.  To cover even 1/2 of the things that current projects need done you must be organized.  I am now using a timer. I great site came into my life last summer, FlyLady, and helped me to view things a bit at a time. You can do just anything for only 15 minutes. That works for the projects you don't like to do but that timer also works for keeping me on track. I start reading blog posts, sourcing product, or just shopping on the web and it is so easy to loose track of time. Some projects get the 15 minutes, some are set for 20 or 30 and I even set myself 60 minute blogs of time for work projects. The key is - when the timer goes off you move on. You know that timer is going to ring so you might be pushed to work just a bit faster, too.

I challenge you to try it. It doesn't take a fancy timer. Just one that was used in the kitchen or a simple alarm on your phone might work to try out the theory. Get moving and get things done. Use that timer.

class TimeoutFunctionException(Exception):
    """Exception to raise on a timeout"""
    pass 

class TimeoutFunction: 

    def __init__(self, function, timeout):
        self.timeout = timeout
        self.function = function 

    def handle_timeout(self, signum, frame):
        raise TimeoutFunctionException()

    def __call__(self, *args):
        old = signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, self.handle_timeout)
        signal.alarm(self.timeout)
        try:
            result = self.function(*args)
        finally:
            signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, old)
        signal.alarm(0)
        return result 

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    stdin_read = TimeoutFunction(sys.stdin.readline, 1)
    try:
        line = stdin_read()
    except TimeoutFunctionException:
        print 'Too slow!'
    else:
        print 'You made it!'

A TV remote operates around 38kHz. Since the frequency does not have to be exact, I decided to go with a 555 timer IC in order to be able to fine tune the frequency by turning a potentiometer. Once I had my circuit assembled, I had to test that it was turning on and at least blinking. Since the human eye cannot see light in the infrared region of the light spectrum, I verified that the IR LED was indeed blinking by turning on the camera on my phone and pointing it at the LED. After verifying that the LED was blinking, I took the circuit to the nearest TV for it's first field test.

With my girlfriend continuously holding down the volume button up and down (to provide a continuous signal that could be monitored by the presence of the volume bars on the TV), I aimed the IR LED at the TV and started slowly turning the potentiometer. As I turned it I watched for the volume bars on the TV to stop moving. After about 2 seconds, I had hit the right spot and my girlfriend could no longer control the TV with the remote. Needless to say, I was ecstatic!

What made it so amazing was the fact that it actually worked! I really had no hope for it and the fact that I had put the circuit together so quickly without checking to make sure that everything was connected properly made it even less likely for it to work. But it did and I was happy. The only thing that I was disappointed with was the range of the jammer. After about 2 feet, the jammer was not able to jam the TV anymore. I did some research and now know how I can make it more powerful while still being able to power it with batteries. However, after seeing it work, I was satisfied and moved on to another project.

One day I will go back and redo this circuit and make it longer range.

Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have and I will update this post accordingly.

I decided to learn ASM (Assembly) language first since most people say it gives you a good foundation for you to later learn the C side of it (not to mention I am already quite familiar with C++). The first thing I did was create the "Hello World" PIC circuit: a blinking LED. Technically, the first circuit I made with a PIC was one that turned on an LED but that was too easy so I will not count it. To make an LED flash or blink was a lot harder than I thought it would be.

I already knew how to make an LED flash at a certain frequency using a 555 timer IC, but this was purely analog. Therefore, I split the breadboard in two sections: one half was the analog method of making an LED blink and the other side was the digital method of making an LED blink. My goal was to make both LED's blink at the same rate. I used a Microchip PICkit2 programmer to program the PIC (as seen at the top of the picture). The left side of the breadboard is the PIC side and the right side is the 555 timer (analog) side.

I am proud to anounce that I was able to make it happen and I learned a lot in the process. I did change some of the code quite a bit after I got it to work just to play around with various things and see what would and wouldn't work so if the code I am posting is not entirely correct, then it's probably because I saved it after messing with it.

;***********************************
;                                                                    
;    Filename:      L2-Flash_LED.asm                   
;    Date:          June 28, 2008                                    
;    File Version:  1.0                                              
;                                                                    
;    Author:        Hugo                                       
;    Company:                                                        
;************************************
;             
;  Architecture: Baseline PIC         
;  Processor: 12F508/509         
;                                                                    
;************************************
;                                                                    
;    Files required: P12F509.INC                                     
;                                                                    
;************************************                                                                    
;    Description:   Lesson 2, Exercise 1                            
;                                                                    
;    Flashes a LED at approximately 1Hz.        
;  LED continues to flash until power is removed       
;                                                                    
;************************************
;                    
;  Pin assignments:          
;   GP1 - flashing LED          
;             
;************************************

list      p=12F509                  ; list directive to define processor
#include <p12F509.inc>        ; processor specific variable definitions

__CONFIG   _MCLRE_ON & _CP_OFF & _WDT_OFF & _IntRC_OSC

; '__CONFIG' directive is used to embed configuration word within .asm file.
; The lables following the directive are located in the respective .inc file.
; See respective data sheet for additional information on configuration word.

;*****Variable definitions
  UDATA
sGPIO res 1                          ; shadow copy of GPIO
count1 res 1                         ; delay loop counters
count2 res  1

;*************************************
RESET CODE 0x3FF  ; processor reset vector
 res 1  ; holds movlw with factory RC cal value

; Internal RC calibration value is placed at location 0x3FF by Microchip
; as a movlw k, where the k is a literal value.
   
MAIN    CODE    0x000
 movwf   OSCCAL               ; update register with factory cal value

;*****Initialization
start  
     nop                              ; 'no operation' - wastes an instruction cycle
     movlw   b'111101'          ; configure GP1 (only) as an output
     tris GPIO          
 
 clrf sGPIO  
 
;*****Main Loop
blink
  movf sGPIO,w                   ; get shadow copy of GPIO
  xorlw b'000010'                ; flip bit corresponding to GP1 (bit 1)
  movwf GPIO                     ; write to GPIO
  movwf sGPIO                    ; and update shadow copy

  ;****delay of approximately 499ms (~0.5s)
  movlw .244                       ; move 244 to w ('.' makes it a decimal value)
  movwf count2                   ; set the outer loop counter to 244
  clrf count1                        ; set the inner loop counter to 0

delay1 nop                          ; this delay loop goes through 249,611 instruction cycles
                                          ; 244 x (256 x 4 - 1) - 1 = 249,611
  decfsz count1,f                   ; decrement count1 by 1 and skip next instruction if zero
  goto delay1                       ; since count1 is zero, this will loop 256 times (255 + 1)

delay2 nop
  decfsz count1,f
  goto delay2
  decfsz count2,f                  ; go through inner loop (count1) again, 244 times
  goto delay1

  goto blink                          ; repeat forever

  END                                  ; directive 'end of program'

So building a live clock on your spreadsheet, or having spreadsheets update themselves after an interval is not very easy. We've seen complex macros tied into the Open event of a workbook, launched by Windows Scheduler, and a whole array of other workarounds to achieve something that's simple in most programming languages.

The VBATimer.dll (zipped version here) is a VB Timer, wrapped in a class that exposes events to Excel. Once the DLL is added as a reference, it can be used as in this example (placed in the ThisWorkbook module):

Dim WithEvents o As VBATimer.Timer

Private Sub o_TimedFired()
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(1).Cells(1, 1) = Now()
End Sub

Private Sub Workbook_BeforeClose(Cancel As Boolean)
Set o = Nothing
End Sub

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Set o = New VBATimer.Timer
o.SetTimerMilliseconds 1000
End Sub

In this example, the time is placed in the first cell of the first worksheet, updating every second. While this is a trivial use, it has many other applications, such as detecting user inactivity or running tasks at specific times or intervals.

It's funny how things change so suddenly - perhaps putting it out here in black and white forced me to realise what the hell is going on ... or maybe after two years of putting up with crap, complaints and excuses from L - I've finally had enough!! Something happened today that really was the last straw for me and driving home I knew I'd made the decision.

I mentioned before that L rents a room from me in my workplace. I'm self employed and I rent a large workspace that has several separate rooms. He started renting one a few months ago and uses it for his arty farty creative stuff and it also means that I have guaranteed rent income every week. At a time when business is slow, heavens knows I've come to rely on it too! I guess it also gives us a reason or excuse to see each other or at least speak to each other every day because he needs to check his bits and pieces. Some of his creative arty farty bits are very specialist. Anyway, when he's not there - and over the summer holidays while I have the kids there, I check on things for him. I don't MIND because I'm there anyway ... and if I can save him time in just popping down to check on something ... then I will do that because it's a nice thing to do - and you do nice things for your friends, right?!

Anyway, he's had something on a timer and he'd worried before that the timer wasn't working. It was supposed to be off until 5.59pm and then switch on at 6pm. I broke my neck this evening (metaphorically speaking of course!!) to leave the house as soon as H walked through the door and get there before 6pm so I could check his frigging timer. As far as I was concerned and from the conversation L and I had yesterday - he was supposed to be coming down very quickly at 6pm to check the timer. Did he bother showing up? Did he hell!

I had to finish off everything *I* needed to do for work this evening, load the car up for an event tomorrow AND do some printing. I knew he wasn't going to show up. I called him at 6.03pm to let him know the timer wasn't working and he said he'd be straight down. He called back minutes later to say it wasn't worth it as there was nothing he could do without a timer.

BOLLOCKS! He could have popped into the DIY shop which is on the way to my office and picked up a new timer, plugged it all in and set it up and been no more than an hour. Instead he's said he'll pop in tomorrow during the afternoon while I'm not there with the kids and look at it. We'll see. My prediction is that he won't be bothered until after I get back from my event tomorrow evening around 5pm.

Anyway back to today and what really REALLY made me wonder what the f*** I've been doing all this time!

When I called him to let him know about the timer, I asked him if he had anything to smoke as I'd run out. Yes people I'm talking about cannabis. Call me a bad person because I like to have a smoke in the evenings once my kids have gone to bed because it's what I do to RELAX!!! Anyway, he said he had a bit I could have but that it was awkward as he had someone coming over. Read it's TUESDAY and the guys are coming over. Basically I knew it was a case of leave work & go over right then and come back to work to finish off ... or wait until I see him tomorrow.

So of course I went over right then. I WILL ADD ... it's down to wanting a smoke rather than an excuse to see him ... honest.

L's mum is staying with him at the moment and she was there when I got there. She's a lovely lady - always nothing but polite to me and makes a great cuppa! Anyway, I'd literally been in the door 30 seconds when he asked her a question ... she answered and from nowhere he totally went off on one at her. I was gobsmacked!! He put a bit of smoke on the table in front of me ... I said thank you and sat there in silence as he had a go at her for pretty much nothing and he was questioning her about when she was working over the next few days as he needs to make plans. Obviously I wasn't there in the run up to that so I had no idea what had gone on before I arrived, but listening to him have a go ... I just had to get out of there.

In a very up beat jovial kind of voice I half trilled "talking of work, I really should get back to it as I've still got a lot to do tonight" ... and I added "I'll see myself out" as I ran out of the door and didn't stop running until I got to my car.

It's not the first time I've seen him talk to her in that way and I really didn't know what to do with myself or where to put myself... hence why I got out of there. I felt so emotional as I drove back to work ... and it was in the car driving that I made that decision.

WE ARE SO OVER.

I understand and appreciate that L has this need to sort out his future and make something of himself. He wants to make an investment in my business of 5K (in UK money - $10K USD to my American readers!) for a 40% share of the profits. Now ... my business is currently in debt, so his investment would pay that off ... but today I really questioned exactly WHAT I would get in return for handing over almost half of what I make.

I can't go into detail of exactly what my business is because I am fairly well known on the internet for what I do and it is for that reason that I need to be anonymous. I can't have my children or my customers knowing that I am in such emotional termoil or it would reduce their confidence in me and I NEED their confidence to stay in business! Dear reader you will have to forgive me for that, but what I WILL say is that for a 40% share of future profit ... I would EXPECT a business partner to do 40% of the work. So far L has been fantastic as far as ideas go, but as to physical hard labour? I've not seen a thing. He HAS been an amazing butt kicker however! I am behind with my taxes and I had no clue about my numbers. With his ass kicking, I've been able to almost halve my running costs and really be aware of my numbers.

The thing is ... the more I get into my numbers and really start to understand my business as far as game theory goes (i.e the aim is to WIN!) ... the less I am starting to wonder whether I actually need him. Maybe I do need a business partner ... I mean L has been inspirational as far as ideas for the future go - he's helped me revamp the website and re-brand my entire company ... but heck I could get that from any friend and at the end of the day I'm still the one doing all the hard graft.

Does he stick around after he's checked on his stuff to help me if it's obvious I have a lot to do?

Did he hug me that day I broke down in tears in front of him with mascara streaming down my cheeks after things with H got really bad and we had a row?

Okay those are completely separate things, but the answer to both is a big fat NO.

I'm seriously reconsidering the business partnership ... but the sexual side is definitely over and I am going to stop breaking my neck for him. From now on, if HE needs to check on the timer then HE will have to be there whatever time necessary to make it happen. I'll do it if I am THERE but no more neck breaking in order to do it.

Decision made and written in black and white. You hear me L? I DON'T WANT YOU ANYMORE. Even sexually ... damnit this guy was my fantasy material when my vibrator needs a workout, but after today ... nah - does nothing... nada ... zip. It is O-V-E-R.

Well I asked for a sign earlier today ... I sure got one eh!!

Time Until Departure

Okay, so I'm the only one who'll ever click that button. If you are here by mistake, please come back in a couple of months. Hopefully the blog will still be here, but with actual JUB happenings, not self-centered projections of what one person is expecting from this three (or more) years eon there.

Today I spent a lot of time thinking about how to achieve a variable frequency square wave without having to be so precise counting every instruction. Using a div64 or div256 prescaled timer firing an interrupt routine that will apply the value to the output port will give me a regular sampling frequency, and in the time between interrupts I can calculate the value of the next sample going to the pin.

The benefit of this is it leaves all the timing up to the micro's timer hardware, saves me some registers. Unfortunately this means that the only pure frequencies I can generate are integer divisions of the timer frequency. This means I can't generate every part of the spectrum, and more annoyingly that the spectrum isn't particularly linear.

However, I can get a reasonable accuracy, especially in the lower frequencies, up to about 5KHz with an accuracy no worse than 2-3% of the target frequency. It'll do for now.

To avoid this problem we will introduce a solution in two steps, the first is to obtain a reference to your object instance, which is enough for some needs, and the second is to call your method from the object's scope, which is needed to access the private part of your object. Here we go:

1. Remember that in JavaScript functions can have properties too, so you can save your object instance in a property of your favourite method and then access this property trought arguments.callee object which is a reference to the current function. See the following example:

2. Using this method you have obtained a reference to your object, so you can already access its public interface. That could be enough for some uses, but sometimes we need to update private parts of our objects, so we actually need to operate from within the object. To ensure your method is working with the correct scope you can add the following check to your method code:

Take care with this last method, as it won't work with older navigators (IE 5.0 or less) whose don't support the apply method. You can see other techniques to recover your scope in this blog, but this one is the fastest and easier.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y5jMOK87N7A

var tm:Timer = new Timer(1000);
tm.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,ilerle);
function ilerle(event:TimerEvent):void{
buton_mc.x +=10;
}
tm.start();

Şimdi bu kodları inceleyelim:

var tm:Timer = new Timer(1000);

tm adında bir değişken tanımlıyoruz ve Timer örneği oluşturuyoruz. Kullanımı Timer(gecikmeSuresi, tekrarSayisi) şeklindedir. Burada gecikme süresini 1 sn olarak ayarladık. Tekrar sayısının kullanımı ise opsiyoneldir. Biz bu örneğimizde kullanmadık ve sonsuza kadar tekrar etmesini istedik.

tm.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,ilerle);

tm değişkenine dinleyici özelliğiyle Timer olayı tetiklendiğinde (her 1 sn'de) ilerle adlı fonksiyonun çalışmasını sağlıyoruz.

function ilerle(event:TimerEvent):void {
buton_mc.x +=10;
}

ilerle fonksiyonunda sahnede bulunan buton_mc adlı movie clip'in bulunduğu konumdan 10 px sağa ilerlemesini söylüyoruz.

tm.start();

ve son olarak start metoduyla bu özelliğin başlamasını istiyoruz.

your time on one thing. The timer will help you stay focused on your to do list, moving from one thing to the next, and getting it all done with a peaceful, relaxed attitude.

Set the timer for each task. Break down your to do list and never set your timer for more than 15 minutes.

When the timer goes off, stop. Even if you aren’t completely done, stop. That’s the secret of using the timer effectively. You can always finish the job at a later time.

Reset your timer and move on to the next task. Tackle the next thing on your to do list, with a 5, 10, or 15 minute interval.

We all know that in today’s world, it’s hard to stay focused for more than 15 minutes at a time. This timer system takes advantage of that by keeping you moving and working, and not allowing you to get bogged down in one thing. Marla Cilley, the organizing guru at the Fly Lady site says, “You can do anything for 15 minutes.” She’s right. By breaking things down into small 15 minute increments, you can everything done and have time left over. She even has a teacher journal on her website to help you get organized.

Here’s a sample afternoon in my room. As soon as the students are out the door, I set my timer.

5 minutes: Straighten up the classroom, pick up stray pencils and papers.

5 minutes: Put tomorrow’s bellwork on the board, change the calendar/schedule.

5 minutes: Get all of tomorrow’s supplies/papers ready. (I keep these in a folder, labeled by day, at my desk, so this is a quick task.)

15 minutes: Start grading papers. (More about managing your grading in a future blog.)

Now I check to see if I have a meeting to attend. If not, I take a break and visit colleagues. I allow 20 to 30 minutes for this. Then it’s back to work.

10 minutes: Call a parent.

15 minutes: Grade more papers.

15 minutes: Any other task that needs to be done.

5 minutes: Pack up and go home!

Even when I have meetings, which is almost every day, by using my timer effectively, I can be out of the classroom by 5 p.m. The goal with this system is to go home with no student work in your bag. That way you can spend your evenings with your family and have time for writing.

So here's my first MIDlet or mobile java mobile edition program for mobile phones.  I wanted to have a Rubik's Cube scrambler and timer application on my phone so I could cube on the road. It's very basic and doesn't include a database with highscores and averages maybe I'll include that in the future.

You can download the application here (rightclick, /saveas): http://taggle.110mb.com/CubeMobile.jar

]]> http://rizkibeo.wordpress.com/?p=164 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:42:22 +0000 rizkibeo http://rizkibeo.wordpress.com/?p=164 Posting ini sekaligus menjawab pertanyaan Mas Wirza via email yang menanyakan sistem pengawasan penumpang angkutan umum.

Pernahkah Anda melihat seorang di pinggir jalan, membawa notes atau catatan kecil dan jam (bisa jam tangan atau ada yg bahkan menempel jam dinding di pagar) ? Mereka sibuk mencatat ketika sebuah bus melintas dan berhenti sejenak. Nah, jeda waktu bus berhenti sampai kemudian berangkat lagi itulah yang menjadi tugas orang tadi.

Mereka disebut "timer".

Tugas "timer" sekarang ini banyak yang 'hanya' menjadi pengendali waktu atau headway angkutan umum. Mereka bertugas mengatur jadwal keberangkatan antar bus, sehingga tidak terjadi penumpukan bus (apalagi yang sejalur) pada waktu yang sama.

Lalu, apakah tugas "timer" hanya sekedar mengatur waktu?

Dulu, tugas "timer" sebenarnya bukan hanya mengatur waktu, namun juga mengawasi jumlah penumpang yang ada di dalam bus. "Timer" seperti ini sekarang masih berjalan di bus2 Antar Kota Antar Provinsi (AKAP) dan Antar Kota Dalam Provinsi (AKDP), yang memang ditugaskan oleh pihak operator untuk mengontrol jumlah penumpang (dalam segmen2 tertentu), sehingga dapat mengontrol pendapatan.

Dalam sistem angkutan umum yg dikelola langsung oleh operator, mekanisme pengawasan memang menjadi tanggung jawab operator, sehingga membutuhkan alat pengontrol yg tepat. Di Indonesia, mekanisme tiket yang langsung dipegang awak bus (baca : manual) memang menjadi kelemahan dari sisi kebocoran pendapatan. Di negara maju, sistem tiket sudah berupa elektronik (bisa diletakkan di dalam bus atau di luar) dan online, sehingga mekanisme pengawasan berjalan otomatis tanpa melibatkan unsur manusia lagi. Menerima pembayaran uang di atas bus merupakan pelanggaran.

Berbeda dengan sistem bus yg dikelola oleh Pemerintah dan dioperasikan Operator (misalnya Bus Trans-Jogja). Operator sudah tidak berhubungan langsung (dalam arti membayar) dengan penumpang, karena hubungan mereka sebatas service atau pelayanan. Kendali penumpang dan sistem operasi bus diambil alih oleh pemerintah, sehingga sistem Bus Trans-Jogja tidak mengenal "timer". Sistem ini menggunakan headway yang terkontrol dan terjadwal rapi.

Demikian sedikit gambaran tentang mekanisme pengawasan angkutan umum.

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