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News First UK Bus - the UK's largest bus operator - is to install new technology to monitor how well its 9,000 buses are being driven. Onboard computers will be installed in 9,000 First buses (photo credit:... [04 Aug 2009]
iPhone apps, Antique PCs, Microsoft R&D and supercomputers
Photo From army tech to bus tech - May was the 30th anniversary of London Buses' emergency control centre, CentreComm. Over its three decades, the hub has journeyed from radios and pen and paper to GPS... [02 Jun 2009]
Photos: Thirty years of technology on the buses
Photo When it opened 30 years ago, staff in London Buses' emergency control centre CentreComm relied on a radio and pen and paper to do their job. Today feeds from about 2,000 CCTV cameras around... [26 May 2009]
Boots dispenses contactless payments
News PayPass cards can already be used to make payments in London black cabs, at Manchester City Football Club and on buses in the Merseyside. Customers at 15 Boots shops in London and six in... [13 May 2009]
Tech workers ignite Indian elections
Comment In the cafeterias of outsourcing firms, in employee smoking corners and on company buses, the chatter revolves around India's elections. This week Prasad will stand in line alongside thousands of young, middle class... [21 Apr 2009]
Human robots, Android Magic and classic radar tech
Photo Self-steering "guided buses", seen here, were unveiled last month and will be introduced in Cambridgeshire later this year. The self-steering "guided buses" will travel at up to 60mph on dedicated tracks... [02 Mar 2009]
Photos: Is it a tram? Is it a train? No, it's superbus!
Photo Passengers on the Cambridgeshire guided buses will be able to pay using touch-and-go smartcard tickets, similar to London's Oyster system, thanks to the smartcard readers fitted on all guided... [03 Feb 2009]
Scousers to go contactless on the buses
News Scousers are set to use contactless bankcards on a number of buses in Merseyside, following the announcement of a pilot of the technology by Stagecoach, MasterCard and The Royal Bank of Scotland. The Liverpool trial,... [21 Oct 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo Owen Memanin of Wood Lane in North London shows his support for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon outside the Home Office following the refusal by the European courts to block McKinnon's extradition to the US. [02 Oct 2008]
Dublin gets its own Oyster card-a-like
News The prepay e-ticket will be phased in across all public transport from late 2009, and will eventually be useable on all buses, trains, trams and coaches in the city.silicon.com Public Sector Some Dublin... [24 Sep 2008]
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... [11 Aug 2008]
Tech to get walkers back on streets of London
News Transport for London (TfL) says the system will boost public health and reduce stress on buses and the Tube by providing a benchmark to measure the success of schemes to promote walking.... [08 Aug 2008]
Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment For want of a public transport system in the city, companies such as Wipro and Infosys run a fleet of hundreds of private buses to ferry employees to the workplace and back. For the best part of the ride to the airport,... [30 Jul 2008]
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... [29 Jul 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain
News Around 15,000 mobile phones and PDAs such as the BlackBerry are handed in each year after being left on tube trains and buses around the capital. The latest in our weekly look back through the classic stories of the last... [05 Mar 2008]
