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Transport for London (TfL) is responsible for the transport system of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. TfL's role is to implement the transport strategy for, and to manage transport services across, the capital. TfL is controlled by a board whose members are appointed by the Mayor of London, a position currently held by Ken Livingstone, who also chairs the board. The Commissioner of Transport for London, a position currently held by Robert Kiley, reports to the board and leads a management team with individual functional responsibilities.1 Organisation
TfL is broken down into a set of functional units, each with responsibility for different aspects and modes of transport. These are:
Each of the above units has its own corporate identity, formed by rendering the standard roundel in a different base colour, and with appropriate lettering across the horizontal bar. Additionally the roundel rendered in blue without any lettering is used to represent TfL as a whole. The same range of base colours is also used extensively in publicity, and on the TfL website.
2 Co-ordinated ticketing
Most of the transport modes which come under the control of Transport for London have their own charging and ticketing regimes. As an exception, buses and trams share one common fare and ticketing regime, and the DLR and the Underground another.
Superimposed on these mode specific ticketing regimes is the TravelcardA travelcard is a ticket for public transport in London, which allows the holder to use the following modes of transport within the zones on the ticket: buses underground trains (the Tube overground trains light rail services trams Valid cards also entitl system, which provides zonal tickets with validities from one day to one year, and also off-peak variants. These are accepted on the DLR, buses, railways, trams, the Underground and (to a limited extent) river services.
The Oyster cardThe Oyster card is a new form of electronic ticketing, designed for use on Transport for London services and National Rail services within the Greater London area. Oyster cards can be used to store both period travelcards (of one week or more) and a pay-a is a new contactless smart card system, which can be used in pre-pay mode (to pay individual fares) or to carry various Travelcards and other passes.
3 Journey planning
TfL has developed an electronic journey planner, which enables users to plan journeys by multiple modes in and around London. This is available on the webThe World Wide Web (the Web or WWW for short) is a distributed hypertext system that operates over the Internet. Basic terms Hypertext is viewed using a program called a web browser which retrieves pieces of information, called "documents" or " web pages" (see 'External links' below) and at kioskA kiosk (in Persian Kushk, Turkish koşk French kiosque is a small, separated garden pavilion open on some or all sides. Kiosks are common since the 13th century in Persia, India and in the Ottoman Empire. In Istanbul there are many kiosks in and aros and some payphoneA payphone or pay phone is a public telephone, with payment by inserting money (usually coins) or a debit card (a special telephone card or a multi-purpose card) or credit card before a call is made. Payphones that accept coins have been largely discontins throughout London.
