IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT

IT Project management

Declaration

I declare that all material presented to ABC is my own work, and fully and specifically acknowledged wherever adapted from other sources. I understand that if at any time it is shown that I have significantly misrepresented material presented to ABC, any degree or credits awarded to me on the basis of that material may be revoked.

APPROVED:

MR. ***

MR. ***

MR. ***

IT Project management

Introduction

Full implementation of the 1.2 billion [pounds sterling] Oyster smart card for public transport in London, which is one of the large-scale and most convoluted integrated ticketing tasks of its kind in the world. The borrowing card-sized Oyster cards themselves are founded on Philip's Mifare portion expertise obeying with the ISO 14443 A benchmark, and which has an approximated share of 80% of the international public transport smart-ticketing market. TranSys has bought about 3 million Oyster cards from Atos Origin and Giesecke & Devrient. Oyster is acknowledged over Tube, coach, DLR, London Overground and components of the Greater London rail mesh and presents travellers the proficiency to shop borrowing, peak up their cards on line mechanically or over the contradict at thousands of localized shops. (Victoria 2006:15-20)

Oyster has been step-by-step presented for diverse categories of journey and outlets, encompassing every week, monthly, annual time of the year, and pre-pay permits since November 2002 when 80,000 London Underground (LU) and London Bus employees were handed out with cards. At that time, London's head, Mr Ken Livingstone asserted that Oyster is the start of a ticketing transformation in London. The public can gaze ahead to less lining up to purchase permits and much quicker action through permit barriers and on to buses.



Description

Speed, reliability, and flexibility are just a few of the reasons why contactless smart card technology is becoming well established in public transport. Transport users, like all consumers, have three basic wants: to save time and money, and offer more flexibility and control.

More recently, some proof that smart card technology has been accepted in public transport is the commercial success of London's Prestige project, using the Oyster card.

In 2006 Barclaycard signed a three-year deal with TranSys to enable its credit cards to be used as Oyster cards. The cards handle payment for low-value transactions at retail outlets, as well as performing the function of an Oyster card. (Victoria 2006:15-20)

Transport for London introduced Oyster in London in 2003 and it has been growing ever since. It now eligible for use on all underground train journeys, all bus journeys and some national rail journeys.

Success

The system has been a big success for both passengers and the transport system administrators Transport for London. 17m cards had been issued since the introduction of the Oyster system in 2003. It had successfully sped up journeys and reduced queues on the city's public transport network.

Passengers can currently use Oyster cards as a travel card to cover fares for periods up to one year, as well as to cover single journeys for travel to London destinations including overground ...