The spokesperson for the consortium said features installed into Oyster would enable integration with other systems and talks were continuing with Transport for London and ITSO about how to converge the different specifications. -- Anonymous

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Subject: The spokesperson for the consortium said features installed into Oyster would enable integration with other systems and talks were continuing with Transport for London and ITSO about how to converge the different specifications.

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In reply to: One trial involved one group of routes between Wakefield and Dewsbury operated by the Arriva Group. 's message, "West Yorkshire Trials (1996/1998)Smartcards offering stored value passes and First Group is now extending travelcards throughout Bradford on a commercial basis with local and national launches during April 2000." on Friday, May 02, 07:18:20am

11 November

Smart move for London transport

By Goli Bybordi

London's Mayor Ken Livingstone has launched the piloting of a �1.2 billion smartcard ticketing system which is set to replace tickets and travelcards for transport services across the capital.

Trials of the Oyster card among 80,000 Tube and bus workers began last week ahead of its wider introduction to the public planned for Spring 2003. The smartcard contains an embedded microchip and can be detected by sensors on Underground ticket barriers and readers on buses, and is being delivered through the Private Finance Initiative by the Transys Consortium under a 17-year contract.

Concerns were raised that the system used by Oyster may not be compliant with a framework of emerging standards being developed by the Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation (ITSO), which will allow all travel operators to offer services on the same transport smartcard. Speaking to eGov monitor today Transys dismissed the significance of the claims, highlighting that Oyster system was more developed than the national rail smartcard and it had not been feasible to delay the London launch. The spokesperson for the consortium said features installed into Oyster would enable integration with other systems and talks were continuing with Transport for London and ITSO about how to converge the different specifications.

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