Transport for NSW trials contactless payments on Manly ferries
A contactless payments trial is underway for travellers taking the ferry between Manly and Circular Quay.
A contactless payments trial is underway for travellers taking the ferry between Manly and Circular Quay.
NICTA has unveiled a new transport and logistics living lab (TALLL) in Sydney which is designed to foster collaboration between IT providers, industry and government.
Uber has written to the Transport Ministers of Australia talking up the economic and community benefits of its taxi-hailing app amid state government attempts to regulate its car-sharing service UberX.
Victoria's Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure and VicRoads don't have "comprehensive and reliable traffic datasets for the whole Victorian road network", according to a report on the use of ICT to manage traffic in the state's cities issued by the state's auditor-general today.
The federal government will inject $6 million over the next four years into a new Sydney transport and logistics hub designed to drive productivity through technology innovation.
Sydney train customers can now use the Opal card for some train trips, with more than 4600 customers now signed up for Opal cards following a trial on trains which began nearly two weeks ago.
The New South Wales government today launched its $6.7 million Innovate NSW initiative, providing grants and other support to startups.
The development of IT which will aid the Australian transport and logistics sector has received a boost with National ICT Australia’s (NICTA) latest venture, the Living Lab.
Pictures courtsey of NICTA and Jeffrey Lee.
Former NSW housing CIO, Vladas Leonas, has taken the top IT job at another NSW government department, the NSW Transport Construction Authority (TCA).
Sydney-based transport industry data interchange and portal provider 1-Stop Connections has migrated most of its core infrastructure to virtual servers and iSCSI SANs to reduce its infrastructure requirements and management complexity.