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Driver e-services save £33m

News The Department for Transport and its agencies, including the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), have saved £33m using online and electronic services in the last year. During the financial year 2006/7, around 50 million transactions were...

Tags: e-services, online, dvla, nao

[16 Jan 2008]

Nortel Network Case Study: Australian Department of Defence

whitepaper Australian government agencies provide essential health, education, defence, transport, administration and other services. The company wanted to upgrade the secure legacy ATM network grid to create extra bandwidth to allow for extensive use of...

Tags: ethernet

[10 Jan 2008]

Impact of Precedence Enabled Per Hop Behaviors on TCP Flows

whitepaper In the Department of Defense's (DoD) Global Information Grid (GIG) transport network, packet handling must provide preferential transport to high Precedence traffic under all networking conditions, specifically conditions of resource scarcity, e.g...

Tags: quality of service

[08 Jan 2008]

Manchester Airport uses BI to back baggage rule change

News The Department for Transport (DfT) has lifted the hand baggage limit - put in place back in August 2006 - at 22 UK airports who have demonstrated that relaxing the rules will not have a significant impact on passenger movement.

Tags: department for transport, airports, business intelligence, bi

[07 Jan 2008]

Highways Agency inks £75m outsourcing deal

News The Agency, which is an executive agency for the Department of Transport responsible for operating, maintaining and improving the strategic road network of England, hopes to save a minimum of 15 per cent on its annual IT budget.

Tags: outsourcing, atos origin, highways agency, agency

[03 Jan 2008]

MPs condemn government over L-driver data loss

News Susan Kramer, the Liberal Democrat shadow for the Department for Transport (DfT) described the news of the latest breach as "mind bending", saying: "If that happened last May, why was the Secretary of State - never mind this House - not informed?

Tags: hmrc, dsa, department of transport, loss

[18 Dec 2007]

Fall in drivers flouting mobile phone ban

News But a spokeswoman for the Department for Transport told silicon.com the disparity between its own falling figures and the rising number of drivers being fined for the offence is due to better enforcement by police and not more drivers flouting the...

Tags: mobile ban, department for transport, mobile phone, figures

[04 Dec 2007]

Seur Geopost Standardizes Its Customer Service Processes With BMC Service Desk Express

whitepaper Seur Geopost is a leading company in Spain in the field of urgent transport of goods. Seur Geopost had three specific business requirements: standardize all its processes, optimize its resources, and improve the services provided by its computer...

Tags: help desk, transport, identified, reliability

[14 Sep 2007]

Techies 'more unhappy than hairdressers'

News Hairdressers ranked second in the overall job satisfaction league table behind corporate managers but some of the other professions with happier workers than IT included cleaners, librarians, secretaries and transport drivers.

Tags: techies, job satisfaction, university of bath

[06 Aug 2007]

Mobile rail ticketing 'on track in Midlands by 2012'

News The scheme is in line with guidelines from the Department for Transport designed to coax travellers out of their cars and onto public transport. UK public transport giant Go Ahead Group has pledged to have 50 per cent of journeys on its London...

Tags: oyster, smartcard, mobile, transport

[02 Aug 2007]

CIOs drive innovation - but lack business brains

News For the communications, transport and utilities sector, more than half of business managers surveyed spend more than 25 per cent of their time dealing with IT and in the manufacturing sector this increased to more than 40 per cent.

Tags: managers, idc, it managers, business

[19 Jul 2007]

IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'

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 storage of data and...

Tags: paypal, risk management, risk

[02 Jul 2007]

The CIOs transforming government IT

Comment Suffolk points to successes such as a Transport for London shared service centre that has cut one-third off the group's HR spend in its first year of operation and the NHS Shared Business Service. The biggest spenders were the NHS, the Department...

Tags: cio50

[27 Jun 2007]

The CIOs transforming government IT

CIO Analysis Suffolk points to successes such as a Transport for London shared service centre that has cut one-third off the group's HR spend in its first year of operation and the NHS Shared Business Service. The biggest spenders were the NHS, the Department...

[06 Jun 2007]

Mobile driving ban to get your boss in trouble?

News Under Department of Transport guidelines, employers are liable if they require workers to use a handheld phone while driving or if they fail to forbid employees to use such phones on company business.

Tags: calls, uk, mobile, in-car

[28 Feb 2007]

Mobile driving crackdown shifts up a gear

News The harsher penalties will also apply to those not having proper control of their vehicle, "a measure which can also be used where a driver has been distracted by using a handsfree mobile phone", the Department of Transport said.

Tags: fine, mobile phone driving, fines, driving

[26 Feb 2007]

Editor's Blog: Deutsche Telekom targets services

Comment I wonder what the people from the UK Department for Transport think about the whole thing. Or even local representatives from bodies such as Transport for London, the people behind the soon-to-be-extended Congestion Charge.

Tags: road tech, t-systems, outsourcing

[02 Feb 2007]

Caption competition 12: Whose phone is it anyway?

Photo Picture credit: Transport for London Richard Gianella rd:The gastroenterologist department of the local hospital display some of their 'souvenirs'. This competition is now closed - check out the winning entry below.

[19 Jan 2007]

Biggest spenders on IT in government revealed

News Department for Transport - £223m Department of Health - £116m The government spends more that £12bn per year on IT, with the NHS and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) among the biggest spenders.

Tags: government

[10 Jan 2007]

RFID number plates to hit Malaysian highways

News RFID licence plates are set to be introduced next year by the Road Transport Department in Malaysia, according to reports. Read all about the top 10 best, worst and craziest uses of RFID here. New cars will reportedly be the first to sport the new...

Tags: car, malaysia, rfid

[11 Dec 2006]

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