12 Feb 2010
A former transport planner at Transport for London (TfL) has developed an iPhone application that allows users to calculate black cab fares based on the time of day and projected traffic conditions.
Steve Knox, who is still technically employed by TfL but currently undergoing a redundancy consultation, developed the app over a period of three months in his spare time in partnership with Tim Edwards, a sales director at Marriott Hotels.
The duo spent around £500 to create the application, which is based on Cocoa, one of Apple's native object-oriented application program environments. According to Knox, some extra resource was employed to help out in the process.
“We would like to expand and work on other ways to connect taxi drivers to customers through the user base we’ve already got,” Knox told Computing.
Since its release on Apple’s app store on 8 February, the application – on sale for 59p – has been downloaded by between 500 and 1,000 users.
Have your say on this article
Newsletters
Latest stories from Mobile
Latest videos
You may also like
Mobile jobs
Technology Patent Wars
Staff are increasingly using their personal devices for work. Productivity may increase as a result, but the trend brings with it security risks
Case studies from large organisations across all sectors
... And rich media, and flexible working, and peaks in traffic ...
Upcoming Events
Join us for this Computing web seminar, in which the Head of BI at the Co-operative Group Nick Colebourn will be explaining just how he reigned in the Group’s sprawling database estate and how significant savings were realised and data quality improved as a result.
Date: 31 May 2012
Time: 11:00 AM
Live June 13th 11:00am: Register now. During this web seminar we will be looking at the sorts of incidents that can bring data centres grinding to a halt and what can be done about them.
Date: 13 Jun 2012
Time: 11:00 am
Receive the latest jobs direct to your inbox
Are you being paid what you are worth?
