Department for Transport
Swedish Educational Institution Strengthens IT Protection for More Than 100,000 Mailboxes
White Paper Now, Mailbox and Hub Transport server roles are protected by five scanning engines in one integrated solution that saves time for IT managers and offers high performance. Because client computers that... [28 Aug 2009]
All change please: Your train ticket will never be the same again
News The Department of Transport (DfT) today released a consultation document, inviting comments on the development of its future smart ticketing strategy for public... [20 Aug 2009]
IT essential for businesses' green success
Comment Reducing travel through online conferencing and optimising transport logistics are two pretty obvious ones. But, in order to participate in the debate, IT management needs to show it understands both the issues and the... [19 Aug 2009]
'Post Office workers can't spot ID card fraudsters'
News The Department for Transport (DfT) advised the committee that it was becoming increasingly difficult for Post Office staff to spot high quality fake passports that were... [08 Jul 2009]
NHS network: Time to get secure
Comment It was also expected that IT applications would make extensive use of transport layer security (TLS) to encrypt the link between a user's computer and a secure datacentre. Another reason to take every sensible... [07 Jul 2009]
Next stop HMRC: How TfL CIO will shake up the taxman
Comment From September, current Transport for London (TfL) CIO Phil Pavitt - who featured on this year's silicon.com CIO50 - will take over HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) £1bn IT department from... [26 Jun 2009]
Signing off a gov't IT contract? Don't move a muscle
News These include 20 projects undertaken by the Ministry of Defence that are set to cost £3bn more than originally planned, and a Department for Transport shared services initiative that... [16 Jun 2009]
A Quality of Service Architecture
White Paper This paper provides an overview of the QoS-A and focuses particularly on the role of the transport service and protocol in the architecture. We describe a multimedia enhanced transport service (METS),... [12 Jun 2009]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile He has also worked in various different industries during a 20-year IT career, including insurance (Friends Provident), transport (British Airways), FMCG (Pepsi) and retail (Safeway Stores). A key current priority is the... [03 Jun 2009]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile Until then he remains group CIO for Transport for London (TfL), the role he was appointed to in early 2007. In doing so, he hopes to reduce his department's spend by... [03 Jun 2009]
"I am frankly not much excited by technology per se"
Comment We support schools, libraries, trading standards, treasury, museums, property services, procurement, social care, transport management, democratic services, and the usual corporate services as well as other councils and... [22 Apr 2009]
RFID in Aviation: Airport Luggage Control
White Paper Major aviation industry players, such as IATA (International Air transport Association), Boeing or Airbus have recognized the potential huge savings and benefits of such technology being incorporated on a large scale basis. [14 Apr 2009]
Westminster insiders on why gov't IT is doomed
News Barbara Moorhouse, director general of corporate resources for the Department for Transport, added civil servants can be reluctant to stick their head above the parapet.... [26 Mar 2009]
£8.5bn: Local government's outsourcing bill
News Shared services projects have had a mixed history in the public sector: a recent shared services centre implementation by the Department for Transport that aimed to save £57m ended up... [18 Mar 2009]
How my team didn't slip up in the snow
Comment In the recent transport crisis, we maxed out with about six licences to spare. Throughout the transport disruption caused by the snow, my company experienced little if any impact on technology and the... [17 Feb 2009]
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