9 BRANDING AND IMAGING
9.1 All Concessionaire’s personnel with contact to passengers and public shall be well trained in customer relations and properly dressed. Drivers and other personnel with visual contact to passengers and the public shall wear uniforms. Other Railway System personnel shall be identifiable by uniforms or equivalent, to an extent that passengers and the public will not feel insecure.
9.2 The Concessionaire shall assist the MRTA in establishment of a corporate image for the MRT Purple Line, Khlong Bang Phai Station to Tao Poon Station Section. The Services shall achieve the overall promotion of the brand for the MRT Purple Line. The Concessionaire shall integrate resources and maximize the value of resources to build a strong brand enhancement and to create a Marketing Mix that will increase MRT Purple Line visibility and credibility.
10 SERVICE QUALITY CRITERIA
10.1 The Concessionaire must provide the Services with all the skill, care and diligence to be expected from a qualified, competent and experienced staff of services of a similar scope and complexity as the requirements in this Agreement.
10.2 The Concessionaire must ensure that, to the extent the provision of any Services involves interaction with passengers or prospective passengers of the Railway System, the Services are provided in a polite, cooperative and courteous manner.
10.3 The MRTA may from time to time give reasonable directions to the Concessionaire to perform any Services, in a particular manner, at a particular time or for a specified duration or at or from a particular location, including any directions amending or cancelling any previous direction for the provision of a Service. The Concessionaire must use its reasonable endeavours to comply with any such direction. If despite having used its reasonable endeavours the Concessionaire is unable to comply with such direction, the Concessionaire must provide to the MRTA as soon as reasonably practicable a statement setting out the reasons why it was unable to comply.
10.4 Under conditions of degraded operation which are outside of the Concessionaire’s control, the Concessionaire may be exempted from compliance with affected Service Quality Criteria are specified in Appendix A.
11 TRAVEL INFORMATION
11.1 The Concessionaire shall provide travel information at appropriate locations for passengers in both English and Thai, the official languages of the Thailand, before, during, and at the end of a journey within the Railway System which shall include but not be limited to the following:.
11.1.1 Media to be considered shall include, but not be limited to the following:
(a) internet;
(b) Telephone;
(c) Printed media;
(d) Static and dynamic visual and audible information within the Railway System; and
(e) Radio and television.
11.1. 2 Items to be included in stations shall be, but not be limited to the following:
(a) Timetable;
(b) Signage;
(c) Way finding;
(d) Evacuation routes and instructions;
(e) Fare and ticketing;
(f) Time;
(g) Train arrival / departure time and destination; and
(h) Station surrounding roads, public buildings and areas and major hotels.
11.1.3 Items to be included in stations and trains but not be limited to the following:
(a) Accessibility to handicapped passengers;
(b) Route network;
(c) Connecting transport modes and services; and
(d) Other audible and visual passenger information.
11.1.4 Item to be included in trains but not be limited to the following:
(a) Next station;
(b) Destination;
(c) Route maps;
(d) Door closure and
(e) Instructions in case of Emergency
11.1.5 Information shall be kept current, correct, clear, unambiguous, and legible and shall not obstruct the free movement of persons.
11.2 Service information shall be given as dynamic (i.e. real-time) information (e.g. time to and destination of next services). Essential service information shall be duplicated in audible and visual messengers. It shall be possible to update or overwrite such visual and audible information centrally from the OCC, or from Station Control Rooms, or MRTA’s office.