Victoria / Melbourne Public Transport
Fares for all journeys in 3 or more zones receive an off-peak discount, except where touch off occurs within Zone 1 before 9am on a business day or touch on occurs within Zone 1 between 4pm and 6pm on a business day.
Customers must touch on and touch off to receive the applicable off-peak discount. The discount for off-peak travel is 30 per cent (this is applied after any concession discount).
Customers who do not touch on and off correctly will be charged a default fare that is a peak fare.
For customers travelling off-peak, the equivalent peak fare contributes toward the Daily cap, even though a reduced fare is paid.
For example when a full fare customer travels three zones off-peak, 100 per cent of the standard fare will be counted towards the Daily cap even though only 70 per cent of the standard fare has been paid.