Oyster Contract In Limbo After EDS Legal Move
News Cubic, a member of the Transys consortium that runs London's Oyster smartcard public transport system, has been legally restrained by EDS, the other major member of the consortium, from taking over the running of the entire Oyster system.
[August 13, 2008, 15:42]
TCP Internal Buffers Optimization For Fast Long-Distance Links
White Papers To overcome this problem, many modifications have been proposed such as FAST TCP, STCP, HSTCP, HTCP, BIC TCP and CUBIC TCP. In recent years, issues regarding the behavior of TCP in high-speed and long-distance networks have been extensively...
[December 21, 2007, 0:01]
TfL Terminates Oyster Contract
News The consortium, which comprises EDS and Cubic, will continue to operate the system for the next two years. Transport for London has terminated its contract with the Transys consortium that provides the Oyster ticketing system for the London...
[August 8, 2008, 16:53]
Smart-card Ticketing Goes Underground
News TranSys, a consortium of companies led by Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS), designed the system and has so far outfitted 6,000 buses and 255 Tube stations to use the cards.
[November 20, 2002, 12:57]
Contactless Payment System Crash Probed
News Oyster cards were introduced in 2003 with the £1.2bn PFI contract going to the EDS-led Transys consortium, which also includes Cubic Transportation Systems. London Underground is investigating the cause of a computer glitch that caused its Oyster...
[March 10, 2005, 15:10]
