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Dubai: Number of registered vehicles in Dubai has increased to ane.83 meg this year, compared to 1.4 million in 2015 and 740,000 in 2006.

Likewise, the number of driver licences has increased to 2.5 million this year, compared to 1.eight million in Dubai.

Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai has introduced a number of new smart initiatives to facilitate customers in the wake of increasing number of vehicles and driver licences in the emirate.

Mattar Mohammad Al Tayer, Managing director-Full general and Chairman of the Lath of Executive Directors of RTA, endorsed a package of smart initiatives for improving and sustaining RTA'due south services. Initiatives unveiled contribute to sustaining the use of RTA assets, such as roads and bridges, and improve commuter and vehicle licensing services, which will ameliorate the quality of customer services and enhance the training and qualification of drivers, and will translate into improved traffic prophylactic levels, RTA said in a press release on Sabbatum.

Al Tayer held 2 carve up meetings with CEOs and Directors of Traffic and Roads Bureau and the Licensing Agency of RTA to discuss service improvement plans using smart initiatives.

Active commuter licences

In a meeting with the Directors of Licensing Agency, Al Tayer reviewed the performance indicators of the agency over the outset v months of 2020. It was reported that the number of active driver licences in Dubai amounted to 2.five 1000000, while the number of registered vehicles reached ane.83 million. The Agency candy two.447 million transactions comprising 1.half dozen million vehicle-licensing transactions, 760,000 driver-licensing transactions, and 4,300 no-objection transactions for commercial activities. The numbers reveal that in Dubai, effectively every second person now owns a auto. The number of digital transactions processed increased from 59 per cent in December 2019 to 69 per cent in Improved Testing.

Al Tayer viewed a presentation on the commuter-testing vehicle deployed as part of the smart road system; a futuristic projection based on the use of data telecommunications engineering science (ITT) in vehicles. Such vehicles are fitted with smart sensors and Geographic Information System (GIS), enabling them to monitor commuter licence trainees during on-road tests. The project has the potential to improve traffic safety and the quality of drivers licensing service besides enhancing the implementation of governance and transparency in tests and automating the entire process.

Smart driving lessons

The project employs numerous advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, net of things, avant-garde co-driver assisting systems, GIS, face up-recognition technology and 3D panoramic imaging.

The organisation was installed in 250 vehicles, which carried out 43,828 tests at 16 driving institutes during the first quarter of this year. The project reduced the time of retrieving records by as much equally 75 per cent, cut accident-reporting time past 75 per cent as well, and saved the printing of 60,000 papers.

Mattar Al Tayer endorses a package of smart initiatives for improving and sustaining RTA'southward services. Image Credit: RTA

Digital journeying

Al Tayer was briefed about the organisation for booking dates for vehicle licensing and testing through Dubai Drive app. He was also apprised about the vehicle prophylactic service that enables subscribers to rate the performance of companies, drivers, geographic tracking and vehicle information.

Drones for road inspections

In a separate meeting final week, Al Tayer too reviewed an initiative for the deployment of drones in monitoring maintenance works, which was used in inspecting the structural components of pedestrian bridges beyond the Dubai Water Culvert and elevated structures. Inspection past drones cuts short the time and price of assessing constructional elements and enables the inspection of hard-to-achieve areas of installations, such as suspension cables and bridge bearings.

Future for applied science

Al Tayer stressed on the demand to augment the scope of smart transformation beyond RTA operations such that all customer transactions can be candy without seeking the support of employees of service centres. He chosen for the use of artificial intelligence, big data and blockchain technologies to ameliorate services to customers and brand them happier.

"We have to do good from RTA's experience of providing customer services during the lockdown [motility restrictions] for the COVID-19 pandemic, identify the points of strengths and develop solutions to issues encountered in the processing of certain transactions. We demand to pace up RTA'south preparedness to emergencies and prefer avant-garde technology practises to meet the present needs and cope with hereafter challenges," he added.