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Nexus Alpha initially developed a
software solution for BBC Travel News in 1991, called the 'Travel
Terminal'. Designed initially for police control rooms, it allowed
operators to quickly and easily enter information relating to traffic
problems into one system for onward delivery to the BBC mainframe
News and Current Affairs Computer. From there, it was disseminated
to BBC television and radio, and re-keyed onto BBC Ceefax, thus eliminating
numerous time-consuming calls from the media to the police, requesting
travel news updates.
In 1992 representatives of British Rail Network SouthEast saw the
system at the BBC, and, responding to a rail-industry working-paper
titled "The Well Informed Customer Initiative", identified
a benefit to their rail businesses in using the system to broadcast
messages to the media.
Three divisions of Network SouthEast started using the system in 1993.
Shortly after, the system was expanded so that as well as sending
messages directly to the BBC, messages could also be sent between
Travel Terminals, and to mobile staff via pager.
At the same time Nexus Alpha realised the need to keep the travelling
public informed directly whether in the home, at work or on street
and so developed our first generation of public display screens.
Subsequently, the ROMANSE Project took delivery of a Travel Terminal
at Ariadne House in 1993 for the coordination of travel information
throughout Hampshire, and in the Southampton area, installed a series
of the public display screens "Intelligent Display Units"
(IDUs) that Nexus Alpha had developed.
London Transport subsequently became a user of the system in 1995,
using the system to send out information about all its modes of transport.
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