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London calls time on gas-guzzling vehicles with ANPR

News The system uses data held by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency and Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, as well as vehicles registered with Transport for London (TfL).

Tags: cctv, dvla, tfl, anpr

[14 Feb 2008]

TfL and Nokia to roll out 'Oyster phone' trial

News According to The Guardian, trials will involve phone manufacturer Nokia, mobile operator O2 and Transport for London (TfL) - the agency that runs London's public transport network. None of the parties reported to be involved in the TfL trials were...

Tags: tfl, contactless, payments, oyster

[26 Nov 2007]

IBM snaffles Congestion Charge contract

News Transport For London (TfL) has awarded a contract to IBM to manage the systems that run the Congestion Charge and Low Emission Zone schemes in London. According to a TfL spokeswoman, IBM was selected as the preferred bidder because it was...

Tags: stokholm, capita, ibm, london

[26 Oct 2007]

March away from cheques continues apace

News Transport for London (TfL) has joined an increasingly long list of UK organisations no longer accepting cheques as a form of payment. A spokeswoman for TfL said there had been no big announcement but that customers will have seen a notice on the...

Tags: cheque

[22 Jun 2007]

Leader: No hang ups about subterranean mobiles

Leader Granted, it's still in the planning stages but Transport for London (TfL) announced recently that if all goes well in planned pilots, mobile coverage could turn up across the network from 2009. There are a great many areas where the Tube emerges...

Tags: mobile, london underground, tube

[16 Apr 2007]

Equalization and Multi-User Detection for OFDM-Based CDMA Schemes

whitepaper It is found that Time-Frequency Localized CDMA (TFL-CDMA) outperforms Multi-Carrier CDMA (MC- CDMA) and Multi-Carrier Direct-Sequence CDMA (MC-DS-CDMA), by localizing chips to a rectangular time-frequency grid.

Tags: wireless lan, frequency, radio, carrier

[14 Apr 2007]

Use your mobile on the Tube from 2009?

News Transport for London (TfL) announced today it has put out a tender notice for a pilot project to put mobile coverage on the Waterloo and City line between Bank and Waterloo stations, including on platforms and in the tunnels.

Tags: london underground, transport for london, tubes, tube lines

[15 Mar 2007]

Managing a SAS Programming Environment Using Data Access Pages and the Microsoft Office Data Source Control

whitepaper In addition, either as part of the TOP or in a separate file, people also often see some sort of "Table of Tables, Figures and Listings (TFLs)", containing data such as titles and footnotes, TFL number, source data, analysis population, and output...

Tags: database applications, date, table, sort

[25 Dec 2006]

Oyster and e-money credit cards coming to London

News Barclaycard, Transport for London (TfL) and Visa have teamed up to put contactless payments and Oyster card functionality together on the capital's plastic. Barclays customers will soon be able to use their cards in the normal chip and PIN manner...

Tags: oyster, visa, transport for london, tfl

[13 Dec 2006]

Photos: iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain

Photo Transport for London's (TfL) lost property office covers two entire floors beneath Baker Street Tube station and stores any items left on the underground, on London's buses, in black cabs and on the Docklands Light Railway.

Tags: transport for london, ipod

[04 Dec 2006]

Oyster and Octopus - a tale of two cities' contactless cards

Comment The company is piloting a contactless card scheme in London to compete with MasterCard's alliance with RBS and even Transport for London's (TfL) Oyster card. In 2005, TfL announced it had shortlisted seven potential suppliers to transform Oyster...

Tags: oyster

[28 Jun 2006]

7/7 bomb rescue efforts hampered by communication failings

News A project, called Connect, to enable emergency services personnel with digital radio handsets to communicate underground and from below surface to ground level is currently two years behind schedule but Transport for London (TfL) says it will be...

Tags: bombings, london assembly

[05 Jun 2006]

Speed trial aims to keep London's drivers legal

News Transport for London (TfL) said it is investigating the technology and plans to run a trial next year in an attempt to cut road traffic deaths. A TfL spokesman told silicon.com: "We've got to the point where we need to look at new ways of reducing...

Tags: speeding, car, tfl

[24 May 2006]

Leader: Banks may regret Oyster e-money fiasco

Leader The opportunity remains though, with Transport for London (TfL) still open to offers from would-be suppliers. It's got the energy, the precedent and the commercial clout to make a partnership with TfL a success.

Tags: oyster, transport for london, e-money, tfl

[09 May 2006]

Why Oyster's e-money plans hit the buffers

Why Oyster's e-money plans hit the buffers

News Back in 2005, Transport for London (TfL) announced it had shortlisted seven potential suppliers to transform Oyster from a ticketing system into a means of paying for goods such as coffee and newspapers.

Tags: transport for london, oyster, e-money, contactless

[09 May 2006]

London C-Charge smart tagging and tracking trial extended

News Transport for London (TfL) is set to extend the trial of road toll-style car-tracking tags that could be used to deduct the Congestion Charge fee automatically from motorists driving into the centre of London.

Tags: congestion charge, tfl

[13 Dec 2005]

Siemens wins £60m C-Charge enforcement contract

News The 10-year contract has been awarded by Transport for London (TfL) and will involve the installation of more than 850 ANPR cameras at 127 sites, which will capture the details of an estimated one million number plates per day in the extended...

Tags: anpr, congestion charge, tfl

[13 Oct 2005]

Inside London's Congestion Charging hub

News Capita was awarded the deal to build and operate the scheme by Transport for London (TfL) - but only had 11 months to get the system up and running, a "phenomenally short time period" according to Colin Cross, Capita's congestion charging scheme...

Tags: congestion charging

[13 Oct 2005]

TfL spends £9m on Congestion Charge tech

News Transport for London (TfL) is to spend £9m on new enforcement technology following official approval for the controversial extension to the Congestion Charge zone. To take advantage of advances in technology and reduce communications costs for the...

Tags: easynet, congestion charge, tfl

[11 Oct 2005]

Police to test bomb-detecting body-scanners

News Reports earlier this month claiming Transport for London (TfL) was already testing the scanning technology for possible use at Tube stations were dismissed by both TfL and QinetiQ but Fisher said QinetiQ is in constant dialogue with the Department...

[22 Jul 2005]

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