london underground
TfL ends Oyster card contract early
News Transport for London has terminated its contract with the Transys consortium that provides the Oyster ticketing system for the London Underground, buses and trams. A spokesperson for TfL insisted that the contract has been terminated due to... [11 Aug 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment One of Pavitt's key targets is to streamline and modernise TfL's vast IT infrastructure across the various business units - London Underground, Buses, taxi franchises and rail franchises. That state-of-the art tech vision is evident at the recent... [29 Jul 2008]
Oyster outage hits London again
News The system has failed at all London Underground stations and ticket gates have been opened to limit disruption while the problem was resolved. London's Oyster travel smart card system has failed for the second time in a fortnight with many... [25 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment We've abseiled down buildings, walked the tracks of the London underground at 2am and this week headed into London's Victorian sewers, all to make sure you are getting exclusives that no one else can bring you. [24 Jul 2008]
Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers
Photo silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down inside London's Victorian sewer network to see a much more high-tech network which it is now hosting - Geo's business broadband... [22 Jul 2008]
London travellers hit by Oyster outage
News These cards can be replaced free of charge at any London Underground office. Travellers in London were forced to pay full price fares on Saturday as the computer system for the Oyster travel smartcard encountered technical problems during the morning. [14 Jul 2008]
Axarte Physical Network Automation Improves Management and Safety for London Underground
White Paper London Underground provide ability to use mobile phones in even the deepest underground stations and tunnels and will work with third party suppliers to provide multimedia information for passengers. The Axarte brief was to provide a technical... [03 Jul 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News In an email sent to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Monday, Stallman criticised the use of open-source software, such as Red Hat Linux, JBoss middleware and Apache web-server software, in the online payment system for the Oyster contactless... [10 Jun 2008]
Paper-free train tickets on track
News Passengers will touch either the cards or NFC phones to a mobile or fixed reader, similar to the Oyster system used on the London Underground. South West Trains will start running a smart ticketing system from February next year, followed by... [04 Jun 2008]
Vista basks in public sector praise
Case Study Newham Borough Council and Tube Lines, a public private partnership set up to maintain the infrastructure of the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly underground lines in London are both part-way through their respective Vista upgrades.silicon.com... [30 May 2008]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment I had missed my annual pilgrimage to the great security bazaar at London's Olympia because I had been speaking at the IDC conference in Milan. A short cyber crime story on Al Jazeera TV on Sunday made me realise that this year's Infosec show in... [29 Apr 2008]
Nato: Cyber terrorism 'as dangerous as missile attack'
News Nations need to focus on improving their ability to quickly recover and get systems back online, an area in which nearly all countries were currently "weak", he told delegates at the e-crime congress in London. [07 Mar 2008]
Poster Abstract: Wireless Sensor Network-Based Tunnel Monitoring
White Paper The tunnel in question is a part of the London Underground system. This paper describes the development and deployment of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) to monitor a train tunnel during adjacent construction activity. [03 Mar 2008]
London Underground Enhances Graphical User Interface With Standardised, Scalable Technology
White Paper London Underground is the world's oldest and most complex subway rail network, with 500 trains running at peak hours. London Underground Limited (LUL) was formed in 1985, but dates back to 1863. Last year, it carried more than 976 million passengers. [17 Jan 2008]
Mobiles go underground in Glasgow
News Transport for London is due to start underground connectivity trials this year with a project to put mobile coverage on the Waterloo and City line between Bank and Waterloo stations, including on platforms and in the tunnels. [14 Jan 2008]
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