transport in comment and analysis
The McCue Interview: Nigel Underwood, CIO, DHL
Comment It's a €27bn-per-year business with 160,000 employees across its three main businesses: global forwarding, air freight and ocean freight; ground-based European transport; and global contract logistics supply chain. [08 Oct 2008]
O2 on the rebirth of data, roaming and milking ADSL2+
Comment We're dependent on all of the other providers so it would be a decision by Transport for London about what they want to do with the Oyster card and that may be delayed by some local difficulties they're having in that... [17 Sep 2008]
Legal Eye: Who's to blame for data loss?
Comment Reports by a number of independent research organisations indicate the pervasive use of memory sticks to store and transport confidential information. To prevent the loss of sensitive data, organisations must change... [17 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Antique computing, Segway protest and ID cards
Comment Think about the number of school buses used to transport children from villages to ever consolidating schools. The Department for Transport says it would be "difficult" for scooters such as Segways to... [11 Sep 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. Bangalore's airport was conceived so it could... [30 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment He explains: "All the transport modes or business units have pretty much done their own thing around IT. At least, even for a self-confessed work junkie like Pavitt, that was the plan until the headhunters came knocking... [29 Jul 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment Oil prices drive up transport costs whether on planes or roads. Costs, delays and green issues are all conspiring against business travel. Those factors are also coinciding with the growth of the very tech that could... [30 Jun 2008]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile In his first move into the public sector Phil Pavitt was appointed as Group CIO for Transport for London (TfL) in early 2007. His main task has been integrating the systems of the 13 individual companies that were... [11 Jun 2008]
Paul Coby
CIO Profile Coby has been CIO for British Airways since September 2001 after spending many years working in the civil service where he became principle private secretary to the Secretary of State for Transport in the 1990s. [11 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up The bad news is that so far the Segway has failed to cause cities to reconstruct themselves spontaneously around a brave new urban transport infrastructure (although they are probably easier to handle than one of these) [23 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up Work Wise was hoping that millions of workers would sample the benefits of working from home, such as avoiding crowded public transport, (or perhaps avoiding driving to work in this). Regrettably it had nothing to do... [16 May 2008]
The McCue Interview: Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group
Comment Lynch says: "If you look at public transport over the last 10 years the growth is phenomenal. Lynch - voted one of the UK's top 50 CIOs last year - is now group technology director at Newcastle-based... [30 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Of global warming and pirates
Comment And of course, elevator systems, like so many transport systems, fail catastrophically. Written on BA2487 flying from Barcelona to London, and dispatched to silicon.com from an open corporate network in London [26 Jul 2007]
Leader: How green is your (silicon) valley?
Leader If an employee usually takes public transport it is unlikely a bus or train won't run because that person isn't on it. A report by the Energy Saving Trust has questioned the 'greenness' of working from home (WFH). [05 Jul 2007]
IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'
Comment The first step is to perform a threat and vulnerability analysis on the organisation’s information infrastructure - all of the processes, procedures, standards, people and technologies that support the use, transport and... [02 Jul 2007]
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