What is a shadow ticket? - Travel Stack Exchange

[j e l]

found 3 references to "shadow ticket" on Google Scholar and amazingly one
of the articles is an ethnographic study of  *organizational paranoia* at a
European rail service:

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/joe-07-2014-0020/full/html

found a quote from the article on Google books. the article author
(Frandsen) was "given permission to shadow ticket inspectors on the
train"..."shadow" as a verb:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ethnography/lwWSDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22shadow+ticket%22&pg=PT126&printsec=frontcover

so random. so wild. and Hungary does have an extensive tram system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary#Transport

--jel

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