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News Twenty-eight per cent of silicon.com readers named somebody speaking loudly on their mobile phone as their biggest annoyance on public transport. Mobile phone use is the most annoying part of using public transportation, beating out late trains... [21 Jul 2006]
Biometrics fuel transport IT spending
News Spending on IT by transport companies in Europe will leap up over the next three years as they start testing biometrics and other security technologies. The security and safety of transport services is one of the major challenges for the industry... [07 Feb 2006]
ITNet signs £25m London Transport deal
News London Transport (LT) has awarded a £25m contract for desktop services to UK outsourcing firm ITNet. The company beat out incumbent contractor, ICL, to take over support services for LT's 8,000 PCs and 250 servers. [08 Jun 1999]
Helsinki transport network tries a little SMS at the weekend
News Helsinki transport network Helsingin Kaupungin Liikennelaitos (HKL) is testing a mobile payment system for its public transport this weekend. HKL said it is trying to make the payment systems for public transport more efficient. [20 Sep 2001]
Manchester on the road to high tech transport
News Manchester is aiming to develop a world class transport system complete with high tech road charging technology and travel smartcards. The city has secured £1.5bn of government funding to significantly improve its public transport, which includes... [10 Jun 2008]
UK public transport smartens up
News UK transport minister, Lord Whitty, has announced plans to use smartcards in public transport systems. Speaking at the Traffex 99 Conference this week, he explained how two bodies have been set up to deal with the proposal - the Transport Card... [22 Apr 1999]
Berlin gets smart transport system
News BVG - Berlin's public transport authority - is set to introduce a smartcard system designed to eradicate paper tickets. Travellers will be able to purchase credit units for the smartcards and then swipe them through readers on buses, underground... [12 Mar 1999]
Transport department streamlines 30 websites
News The Department for Transport (DfT) is to spend £1.2m on a project to build a single technology platform for 30 of its public-facing websites. The project is aiming to cut costs through rationalising the infrastructure behind the various disparate... [02 Aug 2006]
London transport targets Oyster 'e-money' trials in 2005
News Transport for London (TfL) has just announced the shortlist of bidders for the e-money project and hopes to choose a partner by the end of the year. TfL hopes Oyster e-money will provide greater convenience for passengers and generate additional... [21 Jul 2005]
Transport for London in outsourcing shake-up
News Transport for London (TfL) is undertaking a massive shake-up of its outsourcing deals in a move that will see some of the work brought back in-house. Currently TfL outsources its desktop management to CSC and network management to Fujitsu Services... [30 Jul 2008]
London Transport upgrades ticketing system
News London Underground's smartcard ticketing contract has gone to TranSys - a consortium of the Cubic Corporation, EDS, ICL and WS Atkins. The 17-year contract is worth £1bn. The four-year programme, known as Prestige, will see ticket gates fitted at... [14 Aug 1998]
Tube strike takes down transport websites
News Although yesterday's tube strike in London saw many workers staying away from the congested capital, those turning to the web to find alternative routes in to the office often found they were struggling to access websites crippled by demand. [03 Oct 2002]
Police tap road cameras for crime-fighting info
News Yesterday the government revealed that Transport for London and the Metropolitan Police have been excepted from parts of the Data Protection Act to allow the "bulk transfer" of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) data in realtime from... [18 Jul 2007]
Legal move leaves Oyster contract in limbo
News Cubic, a member of the TranSys consortium that runs London's Oyster smartcard public transport system, has been legally restrained by EDS, the other major member of the consortium, from taking over the running of the entire Oyster system. [14 Aug 2008]
Mobile rail ticketing 'on track in Midlands by 2012'
News UK public transport giant Go Ahead Group has pledged to have 50 per cent of journeys on its London Midland rail franchise bought through smartcard technology by 2014.silicon.com Public Sector Speaking at a briefing on mobility in the public... [02 Aug 2007]
