Who developed the oyster card?

Question

Who developed the oyster card?

Answer 1

Spongebob Squarepants.

Answer 2

blue oyster cult

Answer 3

Transport For London.

Answer 4

The What Card?

Answer 5

It was a government thing there was no particular person. I don't think it mentions it on here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_card

Answer 6

TfL developed the Oyster Card but it was heavily influenced by Hong Kong's "Octopus card". the Octopus card is used by many to pay for things in shops which is what TfL would like to happen with Oyster Card.

Answer 7

It was deleoped for tfl by an American consortium who had delivered a similar contract stateside (don't recall the name.

Answer 8

I believe it was from an idea given by the celebrated reclusive American writer and poet, Linda J Cirillo to Mayor Ken, when she came to London 10 years ago.

Answer 9

The Oyster card is a contactless smartcard, with a claimed proximity range of about 8 cm (3 inches). The scheme is operated by TranSys, and is based on Philips' MIFARE Standard 1k chips provided by G&D and SchlumbergerSema.

Answer 10

Oyster Card was based on a concept of the Malaysian Smart Card or the Malaysian Touch and Go. Oyster was intruduced in the late 2002 whilst the Touch and Go in Malaysia has been existant since 1997.

The technology was developed by a company called IRIS Corporation http://www.iris.com.my

Answer 11

The actuall chip inside it was invented by a German called Helmut Gröttrup but i guess TFL had the idea of oyster itself

Answer 12

Never heard of it.

Answer 13

A bunch of oysters in their bid to conquer London and subsequently the rest of the civilised world.

^ True sory........kinda ^

Answer 14

Transport for London. I think ken Livingston had an input too.