Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), announced the crowning glory of 75 tasks as a part of the Smart City and Artificial Intelligence Programme. Projects related to the creative agency, infrastructure, intelligent cars, statistics control, synthetic intelligence, and clever and sustainable transport.
RTA has accomplished many innovative initiatives and tasks, including the Raqeeb system, which video display units for 300 bus drivers. The device contributed to lowering fatigue-associated accidents by sixty-five %. The day-by-day price of exhaustion or loss of attentiveness cases detected with the aid of the gadget ranged from 5 to 8 instances. RTA has added the system to two Dubai Trams on an ordeal base. RTA has also finished installing surveillance cameras in more than 10,000 taxis in Dubai. The cameras pushed clients’ satisfaction ratings to as much as 83%. “Projects finished include the Al Merqab gadget, which streamlines and video display units the limousine and e-mail groups. The device offers a strategy for the important demanding situations encountered, referring to the streamlining and governance of e-mail groups. More than 5,200 devices have been hooked up in limos with 114 operators, and all e-hail companies (Uber and Careem) were related to the machine. Al Merqab monitors approximately six million trips,” defined Al Tayer.
Phase III
RTA has finished Phase III of the Automated System for Monitoring Dedicated Bus Lanes, which has reduced the number of cars violating the bus lane by 83% and advanced bus on-time arrival by 20%.
Projects encompass the smart pedestrian signaling device at 15 places. Through intelligent sensors, the gadget increases or abolishes the time allotted to pedestrians, based totally on the human motion detected using the machine. Projects encompass the smart parking booking device allowing the patron to ebook parking earlier than arrival to the supposed destination.
It has additionally brought the field inspection of the truck’s unit. It is a clever automobile outfitted with intelligent solutions to assist in the mobile tracking center to target hotspots witnessing frequent offenses and the availability of automobile inspection robots.
