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TicketTicket may refer to any of the following:
Ticket for AdmissionA ticket is a voucher to indicate that one has paid for admission to an event or establishment such as a theatre, movie theater, amusement park, zoo, museum, concert, or other attraction, or permission to travel with the ticket on a vehicle such as an airliner, train, bus or boat typically because one has paid the fare. Also a ticket may be free and serve as a proof of reservation.Overview of a ticket The first known ticket was used in the Greek period for events such as theaters. A ticket may be bought at a ticket window or counter called box offices in the entertainment industry. The ticket check may also be there or it may be separate. A ticket may be valid for any seat ("free seating") or for a specific one ("allocated seating"). Sometimes a ticket e.g. for some train journeys both are available with an increased charge for a reserved seat. Free ticket seating in a train means the risk that one has to stand but in e.g. a cinema it means a seat is guaranteed, just not a specific one. Paper or card is generally used in ticket manufacture although plastic may be used instead for durability. A ticket can have a barcode or magnetic stripe for keeping simple data stored on them. A higher end ticket uses chips to store more data and prevent counterfeiting. A paper ticket has often a perforation to separate it into two parts, one (the ticket stub) to be kept by the customer and one to be kept by the ticket controller. Whether or not one can leave and re-enter with the customer part only varies. It may not be allowed to avoid subsequent use of one ticket by multiple people or even simultaneous use by giving the ticket to someone before the ticket check (if this is physically possible) but it may also be allowed e.g. in a movie theater to buy, during a movie, a snack or drink before the ticketcheck and re-enter. A ticket may be printed in advance, fully or partly printed when issued or it may be a printed form that is completed in handwriting (e.g. by a train conductor who does not carry a ticket machine but just a supply of forms and a pen). Security issues of a ticket A Counterfeit ticket is a problem at high-priced concerts and other events so holograms are used on the ticket for the Olympic Games, Super Bowl, FIFA World Cup and other high-profile events. The fraudulent practice of passing-back a ticket can be overcome by making the ticket in the form of a tamper-proof wristband. When paying for a ticket online for admission one may get a code or a ticket that can be printed out. At the premises it is made sure that the same right of admission is not used twice. Internet ticket fraud has become widespread with authentic-looking but fake ticket websites taking customers' money but not delivering a ticket , notably for the Beijing Olympic Games (though through websites not based in China). Ticket for Virtual queueing A free ticket is applied in virtual queueing. In a place where one has to wait one's turn, there may be the system that one takes a ticket with a number from a dispenser. This system is usually found in hospitals and surgeries and at offices where many people visit, like town halls, social security offices, labor exchanges or post offices. Another form of virtual queuing is where the ticket carries a time-slot on it, rather than just a sequentially incremented number. This type of ticket would allow someone to do other things and then return for a roller-coaster ride, say, without having to actually stand and wait. Coach ticket A coach ticket is a document created by a coach operator or a travel agent to confirm that an individual has purchased a ticket for a seat on a coach. This document is then used to obtain travel on the operators coach fleet. Only with this ticket is the passenger allowed to board the coach. A paper ticket is only good for the coach operator for which it was purchased. Usually the paper ticket is for a specific journey. It is sometimes possible to purchase an 'open' ticket which allows travel on any coach between the destinations listed on the ticket . The cost for doing this is greater than a ticket for a specific journey. A ticket is sometimes refundable. However a lower cost ticket is usually not refundable and may carry many additional restrictions. It is now common for a traveller to print out a ticket online and use it on coaches instead of having a ticket sent to them in the traditional way. Many coach operators use this system to save costs; some allow a text from the operator to act as a ticket with a unique reference number. A bus ticket is similar. ticket pass A pass is a special ticket representing some subscription, in particular for unlimited use of a service or collection of services. Sometimes the pass replaces a ticket , sometimes it entitles the holder to a free ticket . In the latter case typically at the ticket check both the pass and the ticket has to be shown. Alternatively, there is the discount pass for services such as those above: for a fee per unit time (or as a benefit on other grounds) one gets a discount on each purchase. Alternatively, a multi-use ticket (either valid a limited time, or indefinitely) may provide a discount. For example, a pass for entering a cinema 6 times within a year may cost the price of 4 or 5 tickets. A multi-use ticket may or may not be personal. If not, there may be a limitation to the number of people who can use the same multi-use ticket at the same time.
Election TicketA ticket refers to a single election choice which fills more than one political office or seat. For example, in the U.S., the candidates for President and Vice President run on the same " ticket ", because they are elected together on a single ballot question rather than separately.A ticket can also refer to a political party. In this case, the candidates for a given party are said to be running on the party's ticket . "Straight party voting" (most common in some U.S. states) is voting for the entire party ticket including every office for which the party has a candidate running. Particularly in the era of mechanical voting machines, it was possible to accomplish this in many jurisdictions by the use of a "party lever" which automatically cast a vote for each member of the party by the activation of a single lever. While a ticket usually does refer to a political party, they are not legally the same. In rare cases, members of a political party can run against their party's official candidate by running with a rival party's ticket label or creating a new ticket under an independent or ad-hoc party label depending on the jurisdiction's election laws. Depending on the party's rules, these rogue members may retain the membership of their original party thus two individuals from one political party can run oppose to each other under a different ticket . This was the case for incumbent Senator Joseph Lieberman who ran against his Democratic Party's official candidate for re-election in 2006. Political party factions may also sponsor a ticket in primary elections. When this occurs, a group of candidates, usually one for each office for which the party's nomination is being contested in the primary, endorse each other and may make joint appearances and share advertising with the goal of securing the party's nomination for the office each is seeking for all ticket members. This ticket system was frequently seen in the "Solid South" era in the Southern United States when there was no effective two party system and victory in the Democratic Party primary was considered to be "tantamount to election".
Ticket ReceiptA ticket may be a pick-up ticket , for example when retrieving clothing from a dry cleaning shop or an automobile from a repair shop, or putting things in storage at a train station, cloakroom, etc. This ticket type is also used in places where people are required to "take a number" to queue up, such as in a waiting room or at a customer service desk. Often, this ticket simply has a number printed on it.
Traffic TicketA traffic ticket is a citation issued by a police officer to motorists who fail to obey traffic laws. A ticket generally comes in one of two forms, citing a moving violation, such as exceeding the speed limit or a non-moving violation, such as a parking ticket . A Traffic ticket is generally heard in traffic court.Generally, a ticket is a notification that one has committed a minor legal infraction for which a fine must be paid, and / or an appearance in court must be made. Typically, this means a parking ticket for parking in an unlawful manner or allowing a parking meter to expire or a traffic ticket for a moving violation such as speeding. The latter are usually issued after traffic stops.
Ticket SuperlativesThe fastest speeding ticket in the world allegedly occurred in May 2003 in Texas. It was supposedly 242mph in a 75mph zone. The car was a Swedish-built Koenigsegg, which was involved in the San Francisco to Miami Gumball 3000 Rally. The fastest convicted speeder in the UK was Daniel Nicks, convicted of 175 mph on a Honda Fireblade motorcycle in 2000. He received six weeks in jail and was banned from driving for two years. The fastest UK speeder in a car was Timothy Brady, caught driving a 3.6-litre Porsche 911 Turbo at 172 mph on the A420 in Oxfordshire in January 2007 and jailed for 10 weeks and banned from driving for 3 years.The most expensive speeding ticket ever given is believed to be the ticket given to Jussi Salonoja in Helsinki, Finland, in 2003. Salonoja, the 27-year-old heir to a company in the meat-industry was fined 170 000 euros for driving 80km/h in a 40km/h zone. The uncommonly large fine was due to a Finnish speeding ticket being relative to the offenders last known income. Salonoja's speeding ticket was not the first ticket given in Finland reaching six figures. Film actor and director Harry Myers received the world's first speeding ticket in 1904, Dayton, Ohio. Police gave Harry Myers a ticket for going twelve miles per hour on West Third Street. Another early speeding ticket was given out in 1910. The ticket was issued to The Prime Minister of Canada's wife, Lady Laurier, in 1910 in Ottawa, Canada. She was speeding at 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.
Ticket Issue Tracking SystemAn issue tracking system (also called trouble ticket system or incident ticket system) is a computer software package that manages and maintains lists of issues, as needed by an organization. Ticket Issue tracking systems are commonly used in an organization's customer support call center to create, update, and resolve reported customer issues, or even issues reported by that organization's other employees. A ticket issue tracking system often also contains a knowledge base containing information on each customer, resolutions to common problems, and other such data. A ticket issue tracking system is similar to a "bugtracker", and often, a software company will sell both and some bugtrackers are capable of being used as an ticket issue tracking system and vice versa.A ticket is a file contained within a issue tracking system which contains information about support interventions made by technical support staff or third parties on behalf of an end user who has reported an incident that is preventing them from working with their computer as they would expect to be able to. A ticket is commonly created in a help desk or call center environment. Typically the ticket will have a unique reference number, also known as a case, issue or call log number which is used to allow the user or support staff to quickly locate, add to or communicate the status of the users issue or request. This ticket type is so called because of its origin as small card within a typical wall mounted work planning system. When this kind of support started, operators or staff receiving a call or query from a user would fill out a small card with the users details and a brief summary of their request and place it into a position in a column of pending slots for an appropriate engineer. This determined the staff member who would deal with the query and the priority of the ticket request. Architecture of a Ticket Issue Tracking System The most common issue tracking system's design is relatively simple. A database is the main storage repository for all data. These data are managed by the business logic layer of the application. This layer gives the underlying raw data more structure and meaning, preparing it for human consumption. The now human readable data is then presented to the support technician by another software application or web page. The end-user of the ticket issue tracking system can create entirely new issues, read existing issues, add details to existing issues, or resolve an issue. Anytime a user of the ticket system makes a change, the issue tracking system will record the action and who made it, so as to maintain a history of each ticket action taken. Each user of the ticket system may have issues assigned to them, that is, that user is responsible for the proper resolution of that issue. This is generally presented to the user in a list format. The user may have the option of re-assigning an issue to another user, if needed. For security, a ticket issue tracking system will authenticate its users before allowing access to the systems. Issues of a Ticket Issue Tracking System Issues can have several aspects to them. Each issue in the ticket system may have an urgency value assigned to it based on the overall importance of that issue. Critical issues are the most severe that should be resolved in the most expedient way possible taking precedence over all other issues. Low or zero urgency issues are minor and should be resolved as time permits. Other details of issues include the customer experiencing the issue (whether external or internal), date of ticket submission, detailed descriptions of the problem being experienced, attempted solutions or work-arounds, and other relevant information. As previously noted, each issue maintains a history of each change. Workflow of a Ticket Issue Tracking System An example scenario is presented to demonstrate how a common ticket issue tracking system would work: A customer service technician receives a telephone call, email, or other ticket communication from a customer about a problem. Some applications provide automatic error reporting from exception handling blocks. The technician verifies that the problem is real and not just perceived. The technician will also ensure that enough information about the ticket problem is obtained from the customer. This ticket information generally includes the environment of the customer, when and how the issue occurs and all other relevant circumstances. The technician creates the issue in the ticket system entering all relevant data as provided by the customer. As work is done on that issue the ticket system is updated with new data by the technician. Any attempt at fixing the problem should be noted in the ticket issue system. After the issue has been fully addressed, it is marked as resolved in the ticket issue tracking system. The problem may not have been fully corrected yet it will still be marked as resolved. The problem may be by-design, a known issue, or have a suitable work-around. A Run Book Automation process that implement best practices of these workflow and increased IT personnel effectiveness in ticket systems is becoming very common.
Security of a Ticket Issue Tracking SystemIn IT Security, a ticket is a number generated by a network server for a client, which can be delivered to itself or a different server as a means of authentication or proof of authorization. This type of ticket cannot easily be forged. A ticket of this type may either be transparent, meaning the ticket type can be recognized without contacting the server that generated them; or opaque, meaning the original server must be contacted to verify that it issued the ticket .
Ticket Cases in Contract LawIn contract law, ticket cases are a series of cases that stand for the proposition that if you are handed a ticket or another document with terms and you retain the ticket or document, then you are bound by those terms. Whether you have read the terms or not on the ticket is irrelevant and in a sense, using the ticket is analogous to signing the document. This issue is an important one due to the proliferation of exclusion clauses that accompany a ticket in everyday transactions.The case of Parker vs. The South Eastern Railway Co (1877) illustrates restrictions on this concept:
The test of whether a document fits within the description of a ticket is an objective test, that is, whether a reasonable person in the position of the ticket - holder would perceive it to be contractual in nature. For instance, if exclusion clauses accompany a docket, it may be held that it is not contractual in nature since it is just a receipt.
Airline TicketAn airline ticket generally was a document created by an airline or a travel agent to confirm that an individual has purchased a seat on an airplane. This document is then used to obtain a boarding pass at the airport. Then with the boarding pass and the attached ticket , the passenger is allowed to board the aircraft.
Replacement TicketIt is now common for a traveler to pay a surcharge for a paper ticket . Many airlines no longer issue paper ticket . IATA has announced that as of June 1, 2008, airlines will no longer issue any paper ticket .A paper ticket is generally only good on the airline for which it was purchased. However, an airline can endorse the ticket so that it may be accepted by other airlines, sometimes on standby basis or with a confirmed seat. Usually the paper ticket is for a specific flight. It is also possible to purchase an 'open' ticket which allows travel on any flight between the destinations listed on the ticket . The cost for doing this is greater than a ticket for a specific flight. Some a ticket is refundable. However, a lower cost ticket is usually not refundable and may carry many additional restrictions. A ticket is made up of one or more flight coupons. Each of these flight coupons is an actual ticket that is used for travel. One flight coupon - ticket is used for each leg of the flight. The carrier is represented by a standardized 2-letter code. The departure and destination cities are represented by International Air Transport Association airport codes. The International Air Transport Association is the standard setting organization. Only one person can use a ticket . If multiple people are traveling together, each ticket is linked together by the same record locator or reservation number which are assigned if each ticket was purchased at the same time. If not, most airlines can connect each ticket together in their reservation system. This allows all members in a party to be processed in a group allowing seat assignments to be together (if available at the time of the assignment).
Black Market TicketWhen a paper type ticket was frequently used, a practice existed by travellers to get rid of each ticket (which are person-specific) when they decided to alter the course of their trips. This practice consisted of selling a ticket to other travellers (often at discount prices), after which the seller accompanied the buyer at the time of departure to the airport. Here, the original owner checked in under his name and provided the airport with the buyer's baggage. After this, the buyer boarded the airplane at the moment of departure. However, since most airlines check identification on boarding, this procedure was rarely functional.
A Cheap TicketBesides simply obtaining an airline ticket from a travel agency, online, or at the airport at regular prices, two special types of cheap ticket exists. These include a Standby ticket and a Discount ticket .A Standby ticket is obtained at the airport itself only hours before departure. This type of ticket represents a place freed up by a person who cancelled their flight shortly before departure (so the airline has free places available, yet can no longer sell it at at regular price because of the shortage of time). A Discount ticket is a ticket that is only available at any travel agency; they are usually targeted at students. A Discount ticket may be 50-70% cheaper than any other similar regular ticket (not low-cost).
Electronic TicketAn electronic ticket or e ticket is used to represent the purchase of a seat on a passenger airline usually through a website or by telephone. This form of airline ticket rapidly replaced the old paper ticket type (from close to zero to 100% in about 10 years) and became mandatory for IATA members as of June 1, 2008. During the last years, where paper ticket types were still available, airlines frequently charged extra for issuing them. E ticket are also available for certain entertainment venues.Once a reservation is made, an e ticket exists only as a digital record in the airline computers. Customers usually print out a copy of their receipt which contains the record locator or reservation number and the e ticket number. An electronic ticket is normally introduced in road, urban or rail public transport too. For example, in February 2007 the Czech bus reservation system AMSBUS introduced the product e-jizdenka for several bus routes. Since November 2007 it has been possible to buy an SMS-ticket (SMS jizdenka) for use on Prague's urban transport. Checking in with an e ticket To check in with an e ticket , the passenger usually comes to the check-in counter and presents the confirmation or reservation code. In some airlines it's not even necessary to present the code, as the reservation is confirmed solely on the basis of the passenger's identity which may be proven by a passport or the matching credit card. After confirming the reservation, the passenger checks-in his / her luggage and is given a boarding pass. Self-service and electronic check-in Having an e ticket also allows any passenger without luggage to check to completely skip the check-in counters and proceed directly to security. The option to check-in online is available on some airlines. A passenger enters their ticket confirmation number at the airline's website and the passenger prints the boarding pass ticket on their home printer. Online check-in is typically permitted up to twenty-four hours before the flight's scheduled departure time though this may vary by airline. On airlines without assigned seating such as Southwest, it typically guarantees a passenger early boarding and a better seat. Besides identification, the boarding pass / ticket that has been printed is all that needs to be presented upon arriving at the airport. On airlines without online check-in, the check in may take place at a self-service kiosk in the airport or at the check-in counter. A boarding pass / ticket is required to board an aircraft; in some countries, such as the United States, it is also needed to pass through airport security checkpoints. E - ticket are very popular because they allow extra services like:
Several web sites exist to help people holding an e ticket accomplish online check-ins in advance of the twenty-four-hour airline restriction. These sites store a passenger's flight information and then when the airline opens up for online check-in the data is transferred to the airline and the boarding pass / ticket is emailed back to the customer. E ticket limitations An E ticket is sometimes not available for some flights from an airline which usually offers them. This can be due to a number of reasons, the most common being software incompatibility. If an airline issues a ticket for a codeshare flight with another company and there is no e ticket interlining agreement, the operating carrier would not be able to see the issuing carrier's ticket . Therefore, the carrier who books the flight needs to provide a hard copy version of a ticket so the ticket can be processed. Similarly, if the destination airport does not have access to the airline who booked the flight, a paper ticket needs to be issued. An industry discount (ID) ticket can also tend to be issued on paper if they it is valid for more than one airline and if the airlines that the ticket is valid for do not have an interlining agreement. Since e ticket interlining is still the exception rather than the rule, a ticket valid for more than one airline is usually issued on paper. Currently the ticket systems of most airlines are only able to produce an e ticket for itineraries of no more than 16 segments, including surface segments. IATA mandated ticket transition As part of the IATA Simplifying the Business initiative, the association instituted a program to switch the industry to a 100% electronic ticket issuing system. The program concluded on June 1, 2008, with the association saying that the resulting industry savings were approximately US$3 billion. In 2004, IATA Board of Governors set the end of 2007 as the deadline for airlines to make the transition to a 100% electronic ticket issuing system for tickets processed through the IATA billing and settlement plan; in June 2007, the deadline was extended to May 31, 2008. As of June 1 2008, a paper ticket can no longer be issued on neutral stock by agencies reporting to their local BSP. Agents reporting to the ARC using company-provided stock or issuing a ticket on behalf of an airline (GSAs and ticketing offices) are not subject to that restriction.
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