transport

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Is An Air Traffic Control Nightmare

Pilot Wayne Rash shoots down Amazon's ambition to deliver goods by drone

10 years ago

US Could Follow Europe In Allowing In-Flight Mobile Phone Use

FCC says it is considering in-flight mobile phone use above 3,000 metres

11 years ago

EC Approves In-Flight 3G And 4G As EASA Relaxes Take-off Rules

Europe approves mobile use above 3,000 metres as EASA says tablets and smartphones can be used during take-off and landing

11 years ago

Gatwick Airport Switches Off BlackBerry Servers As It Embraces BYOD

Gatwick CIO Michael Ibbitson discusses Box cloud deal and says it has no need for MDM in BYOD policy

11 years ago

East Coast Trains To Get £2.2m Wi-Fi Upgrade

East Coast Trains says Wi-Fi is why business travellers use rail rather than car or plane

11 years ago

Government To Improve Railway Mobile Reception By 2015

Government wants to improve mobile reception on trains

11 years ago

Ofcom Paves Way For Satellite Wi-Fi On UK Aircraft

Ofcom wants to make it easier to deliver satellite Wi-Fi to planes, trains and ships

11 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Tech Transport

Get on board! Our transport quiz looks at how tech is changing the way we get about

11 years ago

O2 Customers Can Get Free Tube Wi-Fi From Today

O2 becomes the third operator to provide free Tube Wi-Fi to customers

11 years ago

O2 Confirms 22 July Launch For Free Tube Wi-Fi

O2 misses June target for free London Underground Wi-Fi access

11 years ago

O2 Agrees Tube Wi-Fi Deal As Network Expands

O2 customers will get free tube Wi-Fi from June as 12 new stations are added

11 years ago

EE 4G Taxis Coming To London And Birmingham

EE to roll out mobile hotspots in 50 cabs across two cities

11 years ago

Funds For UK Train Wi-Fi And Mobile Coverage In Budget – Report

Chancellor George Osborne hopes to improve mobile business on the railways

11 years ago

Report Calls For TfL To Install Tube Mobile Phone Coverage

TfL could easily install mobile phone coverage, says London Assembly Member

11 years ago

London Overground Wi-Fi Switched On At 50 Stations

TfL announces that London Overground Wi-Fi is live on the majority of the network

11 years ago

Free Virgin Media Tube Wi-Fi To End On 29 January

EE, Vodafone and Virgin Media customers to retain free access, others must use pay as you go

11 years ago

Scottish Government To Fund Free ScotRail Wi-Fi

Holyrood pledges £2 million to install free Wi-Fi on Scottish express trains

11 years ago

Virgin Media Adds 20 New Stations To Tube Wi-Fi Network

Virgin says it's on track to reach 120 stations in early 2013

11 years ago

Alcatel-Lucent Could Bring Mobile Coverage To London Tube?

French firm says mobiles on underground will add £1.1bn to the UK economy

12 years ago

Virgin Atlantic To Allow Mid-Air Mobile Calls

Becomes first British airline to permit in-flight calls, texts and data between London and New York

12 years ago

Do O2’s Telecommute Savings Add Up?

O2 saved 12 tonnes of CO2 emissions by closing its office for a day. Peter Judge asks, is that a…

12 years ago

Interxion Puts Data Centre Staff In Pods For Olympics

Olympic transport trouble won't keep data centre staff from their jobs in London

12 years ago

London 2012 Launches Get Ahead Of The Games Website

New website will highlight potential congestion flashpoints and advice for changing transport arrangements during Olympics

12 years ago

Remote Working Could Boost Efficiency, Says Govt

Initiative aims to encourage workers to use technology to lighten their travel load

13 years ago

Crowdsourcing to Fix Broken Britain’s Transport

FixMyTransport is crowdsourcing to create pressure groups to fix broken-Britain's public transport system

13 years ago

NATS System Failure Delays London Flights

Air traffic control staff at London airports forced to input flight plans manually following system breakdown

13 years ago

BAA Outsources Airports’ IT Overhaul

£100m deal to share real-time information and improve crisis response and service levels

13 years ago

Foodtubes Proposes Underground ‘Physical Internet’

Automatically routed canisters could replace lorries with an Internet of things, says Foodtubes

13 years ago

Video Can’t Replace The Bus, Says Livingstone

Former mayor Ken Livingstone says videoconferencing can't do away with transport, at a conference which also heard government plans to…

14 years ago

Prince Charles Backs IBM’s ‘Start’ Green Summit

While Prince Charles makes a much-criticised train journey promoting green living, IBM is holding a summit on the future role…

14 years ago