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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment initiatives relating to public transport issues.
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- Public Transport - Australia
- Articles and resources about Australian government initiatives relating to public transport issues.
Added: 7 December 2005
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- Public transport - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about egovernment initiatives relating to public transport in the United Kingdom.
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- Victorian Government Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity 2007
- The Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity 2007 (VISTA 07) provides a detailed picture of how people in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton and Latrobe travel on an average day.
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- @ACTIONbuses continue Twitter service updates
- ACT Government - Katy Gallagher, Media Release, 21 May 2012. "ACT Chief Minister and Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Katy Gallagher, said today that ACTION will extend its successful trial of tweeting service updates during the weekday morning peak period. "The ACTION Twitter trial has received significant positive feedback from bus users who appreciated being able to access information updating them about their morning services," the Chief Minister said. "@ACTIONbuses has added over 300 new followers over the last four weeks of the trial and now have over 1100 followers..."
Added: 23 May 2012;
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- Using the new Public Transport Victoria iPhone app
- Public Transport Victoria, Sunday 22 April 2012. "The new Public Transport Victoria app gives you journey planning at your fingertips. Using the app you can plan your journey, navigate and follow your journey with the interactive map, find your current location with GPS, access real-time tram information and scheduled times for train and bus, save your favourite stops and stations and view service alterations. The new app is now available for free download from the iTunes Store..."
Added: 24 April 2012;
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- NSW Transport probes IT 'as a service'
- By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, March 5, 2012. "The newly formed transport super agency, Transport for NSW, is currently flirting with the ambitious idea of abandoning in-house IT infrastructure in favour of as-a-service offerings that would potentially see the migration of 35,000 email accounts, 25,000 desktop environments and 2000 BlackBerry devices to new products. Transport for NSW represents the unification of the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA), NSW Maritime, the Transport Construction Authority and the Country Rail Authority..."
Added: 8 March 2012;
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- Google Transit: How (and Why) the Search Giant is Remapping Public Transportation
- by Wade Roush, Xconomy, 21 February 2012. "... This revolution, as with almost everything the company does, is proceeding at Internet scale. More than 475 transit agencies in the U.S. and around the world now submit their operating schedules to Google, which publishes the data as part of its Google Maps service. So whether you’re accessing a map from a desktop browser or a smartphone, you can figure out how to get where you’re going by bus or train, not just by car. To see arrival and departure times for thousands of bus and train lines, you can simply click on the little blue icons that connote transit stops (at least, you can if you’re using a desktop browser or an Android phone)..."
Added: 5 March 2012;
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- NSW Transport Info
- "Transport Info 131500 - Our purpose is to provide public transport users in New South Wales with the information they need to plan an efficient and successful journey. Our focus is on delivering reliable and accurate transport service information for trains, buses and ferries in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area (including Newcastle and the Central Coast, Wollongong and the Illawarra)..."
Added: 22 December 2011;
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- Australian State Releases Transport Info App
- By Rahul Joshi. FutureGov, 16 December 2011. "New South Wales (NSW) has revamped a free app for iPhone and Android smartphones that integrates all of the public transport information within the state into a single portal..."
Added: 22 December 2011;
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- Digital London bus information service 'a success'
- TRL, 7 December 2011. "Many people travelling on London's bus network have been accessing live transport information using their smartphones. Transport for London (TfL) has been publishing updates - such as bus arrival times and destinations - on its website, which commuters can use to monitor the service on their particular route..."
Added: 8 December 2011;
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- The Future of Ticketing: Report - in pdf format (279kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Greater London Authority, Transport Committee, November 2011. "It is not difficult to see why Transport for London (TfL) wants to allow 'wave and pay' contactless bank cards on the network. The current Oyster system, though very popular, is expensive and complex to administer. Contactless bank cards use existing technology, responsibility for issuing cards would lie with the banks rather than TfL, and the operating costs should be lower. But where is the passenger in all of this? While contactless bank cards will be an attractive option to some, many passengers are sceptical about using bank cards as tickets and others will simply not be able to. The aim of this report is therefore to ensure that the needs of all passengers are central to TfL's Future Ticketing project and that changes take into account passengers' concerns and expectations. We are grateful to Which? for the support it has been able to offer. The findings of its survey have informed our conclusions and recommendations, including a set of principles which, if adopted, should protect passengers’ interests..."
Added: 22 November 2011;
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- The future of ticketing: News release
- Greater London Authority, 18 November 2011. "The Assembly's Transport Committee has raised questions about TfL's plans to introduce 'wave and pay' ticketing on the capital's transport network. This report calls for guarantees from Transport for London that its plans to introduce 'wave and pay' ticketing – starting with buses in Spring 2012 - will provide the highest possible level of security, and that no passengers will miss out on the cheapest fares..."
Added: 22 November 2011;
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- Transport for London's plans for contactless tickets 'unconvincing,' says committee
- London assembly's transport committee says that there are doubts about whether the business case for 'wave and pay' ticketing is robust enough, by Sade Laja. Guardian Professional, Friday 18 November 2011. "Many passengers are concerned about the data security and safety aspect of Transport for London's (TfL's) plans to introduce contactless ticketing, and the project may not deliver the financial savings expected, the London assembly's transport committee has concluded..."
Added: 22 November 2011;
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- Transport for London Live travel news - Buses
- Transport for London. All the data will be made freely available for developers to design specific smart phones applications.
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- Bus passengers get technology boost
- Transport for London. Media Release, 18 October 2011. "Londoners can now access live bus information for the city's 19,500 bus stops. The new system, the most advanced of its kind in the UK, allows passengers to use web or text message technology to find out when their bus is due. Users can search for their bus stops at tfl.gov.uk/buses by using a bus route number, a street name or post code..."
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- Online system will mean no more running for a bus, claims TfL
- Posted by John Lamb. Public Technology, 19 October 2011. "Transport for London (TfL) has launched a real time bus information system covering all of the capital's 19,500 bus stops - that can be accessed online, from a smartphone or by text message..."
Added: 20 October 2011;
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- Myki: The mess that keeps on messing
- By David Heath. IT Wire, Wednesday, 12 October 2011. "1.1 million Myki cards will be replaced in response to the announcement that they can be cloned. Picture this: you obtain a brand-new Myki (in some suitably anonymous name) and load a $1000 credit onto it. All fine (although a tiny bit crazy) thus far. Next, you clone the card 1,000 times and sell the clones for $200 each. It's a win-win-lose proposition! You win, the purchaser wins, but unfortunately, the Transport Ticketing Authority (TTA) loses..."
Added: 13 October 2011;
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- The Economics of Open Data – Mini-Case, Transit Data & Translink
- by David Eaves. eaves.ca, 7 September 2011. "Translink, the company that runs public transit in the region where I live (Vancouver/Lower Mainland) has launched a real time bus tracking app that uses GPS data to figure out how far away the next the bus you are waiting for really is. This is great news for everyone. Of course for those interested in government innovation and public policy it also leads to another question. Will this GPS data be open data?..."
Added: 8 September 2011;
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