Dubai expands site visitors administration venture to cowl extra roads

Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in collaboration with Dubai Police, has expanded the scope of the Traffic Incidents Management Initiative to incorporate Ras Al Khor Street, Umm Suqeim Street, Expo Road and Hessa Street by 2024.

It will improve the protection of the venture from 13 to 17 site visitors corridors and streets, extending 951 km in each instructions.

Since its introduction in 2023, the Traffic Incidents Management Unit has helped scale back secondary injury-related incidents, enhance site visitors move and pace up the clearance of automobiles concerned in a crash.

It additionally seen a drop in site visitors incidents leading to accidents and fatalities by 6.5 per cent, with fatalities reducing by 5 per cent throughout the emirate, highlighted Mattar Al Tayer, Director General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of RTA.

The venture has enhanced highway security, setting” a response rate of about 6 minutes and an average vehicle clearance time of 8 minutes”.

He added that the unit “successfully handled 22,341 traffic incidents, including 9,391 vehicle towing operations, from November 2022 until January 2024”.

It goals “for a response time of 10 minutes and a clearance time of 15 minutes,” Al Tayer stated.

The growth elevated the entire protection of the venture to 13 corridors and streets that embody: Sheikh Zayed Road (encompassing Sheikh Rashid Road and Al Ittihad Road), Al Khail Road (Phase I from the Business Bay crossing to Ras Al Khor Road ), Dubai – Al Ain Road, Al Yalayis Street, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road, Al Rabat Street, Airport Street, Al Khail Road (Phase II from Ras Al Khor Street to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road), Emirates Road, Jebel Ali-Lehbab Road, and Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street, together with Al Wasl and Jumeirah Streets.”