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Twitter alerts: Status Checker and Improved Alerts
We’re proud to introduce our Twitter status checker, as well as improved Twitter alerts and weekly travel advice. In partnership with Twitter, we’ve added the ability to instantly check the status of...
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Data drop – Taxi Ranks
Taxis are an important, trusted and iconic part of London’s transport system, and they also offer a vital service for disabled people. There are currently around 640 taxi ranks in the capital, serving...
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Your App – Use of TfL Design and Logos
It’s great to see that there are now over 600 apps using TfL’s datasets to develop customer facing products, and these products have a huge role to play in helping people to move around the capital....
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Facebook Messenger: TfL TravelBot
We’re proud to introduce our Facebook Messenger TravelBot, which has the ability to provide updates on bus arrivals as well as Tube and bus status updates. Through our two Facebook pages – the main TfL...
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The making of the TfL TravelBot
We recently launched our first ever Chatbot – the “TfL TravelBot” on Facebook, which uses artificial intelligence to help answer customer queries expressed in everyday language. The bot was launched...
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TfL TravelBot: Designing the conversation
As you may already know if you’re following this blog, we recently released the TfL TravelBot on Facebook Messenger. If you haven’t read them yet, Steven and Charul’s posts will give you a bit of...
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Data drop – Fares information
What’s changing Later this week we’re planning to add some fares information to the “Journey” endpoint of the TfL Unified API. This will be shown on TfL’s online Journey Planner, and developers using...
View ArticleLondon RoadLab – our street, your lab
This week we have a guest post from Rikesh Shah and Daniel Gosselin from our Commercial Innovation team. We recently launched London RoadLab, a new way of working with innovators. London’s transport...
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TfL Go, our new travel app for London
We have launched a new app, TfL Go. It’s available for iOS now, and will be released on Android by the autumn. TfL Go is the 21st century evolution of the paper pocket Tube map, nearly 90 years after...
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Introducing… Women in Tech
Women have been in the Tech industry from the time when they couldn’t even open a bank account without their husbands’ permission. Whether it be Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper or Elizabeth Feinler, women...
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Our network as a graph database
The world around us is a graph. Well, that’s at least what 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler thought when he came up with graph theory to solve a long-standing argument about the seven...
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Pinch, swipe, tap
A live Tube map for London In summer 2020, Transport for London launched a bold new approach to digital mapping — an adaptive, live Tube map — made entirely of code. The map builds on Harry Beck’s...
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A strange time
It’s probably no surprise to hear that our working lives changed overnight in March 2020 with the first Coronavirus national lockdown. As TfL’s Digital team, we had to quickly adapt both how we worked...
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Data drop – Taxi Ranks
Taxis are an important, trusted and iconic part of London’s transport system, and they also offer a vital service for disabled people. There are currently around 640 taxi ranks in the capital, serving...
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Your App – Use of TfL Design and Logos
It’s great to see that there are now over 600 apps using TfL’s datasets to develop customer facing products, and these products have a huge role to play in helping people to move around the capital....
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