Tag Archive for 'Oyster card'
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The big news from the DfT's new smart and integrated ticketing strategy (announced in December) is the £20 million funding allocated to smart ticketing. But will this deliver the government's vision? Or does it overlook some of the more delicate issues? |
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From : The Age |
16-Jan-10 6:36:00 AM |
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He set out to like myki, but Peter Munro soon found communications broke down irreparably. |
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New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is drafting legislation allowing installation of cameras on bus lanes to better enforce traffic laws and get buses moving faster, chairman and chief executive Jay Walder said. |
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From : Fujitsu |
16-Dec-09 9:11:00 AM |
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Fujitsu, the leading IT managed service provider, has been awarded a contract from London Councils to manage the production and distribution of over one million new smart card Freedom Passes.
The Freedom Pass is London’s concessionary fares scheme which allows more than a million Londoners aged 60 and over plus eligible disabled residents to travel free [...] |
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Cubic Corporation announced today that it has established a new subsidiary in India - Cubic Transportation Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. - and is entering this dynamic regional market with a five-month trial of Cubic’s smart card-based fare collection technology aboard buses in Delhi. Cubic’s new office in the growing high-tech hub of Hyderabad, India, will [...] |
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RFID and its close cousin near field communications (NFC) have both been touted for great and sexy futuristic applications. These range from the tagging and tracking of all consumer goods to the conversion of mobile phones into all purpose ’super wallets’ where simply waving the phone at the checkout would pay for your items.
The idea [...] |
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National Express East Anglia and Transport for London are joining forces to extend the use of Oyster Pay-as-you-Go (PAYG) on the National Express East Anglia Network in Greater London.
From 2 January 2010 all stations on the National Express East Anglia Network within Greater London (zones 1-6) will accept Oyster (PAYG).
Andrew Chivers Managing Director for National [...] |
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To pay your fare on a Toronto subway is to step into a bygone era. You approach the grumpy guy in his little glass cubicle and drop some coins into a little glass box, just as your father or grandfather once did. Or you put a little metal token into a slot in a turnstile. The sole concession to the 21st century is a slide reader for the Metropass. The basic system has remained the same since the Beatles were playing Hamburg. |
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Motorists may soon be able to pay to park in Portsmouth simply by waving their credit card at a parking machine. |
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ELECTRONIC bus and Metro passes could pave the way for a “cash-free” North East economy, transport bosses say. |
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