H.H. Sheikh Hamdan critiques Dubai’s site visitors administration programs

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His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai’s Crown Prince and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai has reviewed the progress of initiatives to develop the emirate’s roads and transport infrastructure.

He toured the Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) Centre in Al Barsha, which is one  of the biggest and most superior site visitors management centres on this planet.

Sheikh Hamdan was briefed on the RTA’s plans to have 100 per cent of Dubai’s highway networks lined by clever site visitors programs by 2026. Currently 60 per cent of the highway networks are lined.

Since its opening in November 2020, the ITS Centre has considerably enhanced town’s site visitors administration, resulting in a 20 per cent discount in journey time, a 63 per cent enchancment in incident monitoring and a 30 per cent quicker response time.

Equipped with an array of traffic-monitoring and data-gathering units, the centre performs a key function in making certain that Dubai’s clever site visitors administration programs are capable of successfully deal with the speedy growth of highway networks.

“The centre is connected to an 820-km-long fibre optic network, and 425 traffic surveillance cameras, including Dubai police cameras,” mentioned Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the RTA.

“It is also equipped with 235 incident-monitoring and vehicle counting devices, 115 travel time measurement devices, 112 electronic display signs, and 17 road weather information systems,” he added.

I toured the Dubai Intelligent Traffic Systems Centre in Al Barsha, and noticed it’s revolutionary initiatives to develop infrastructure and broaden using clever site visitors administration throughout Dubai’s whole highway community. One of the biggest of its form globally, the centre… pic.twitter.com/lZjiDaxAAD

— Hamdan bin Mohammed (@HamdanMohammed) September 5, 2023

Sheikh Hamdan was briefed on the good screening system for paid public parking, which at present covers 65,000 slots or 34 per cent of all paid parking spots.

These are monitored by 9 good screening autos, that are set to double to 18 by the top of the 12 months.

The growth will cowl round 140,000 slots or 70 per cent of complete paid parking areas. The system has considerably enhanced the operational effectivity and digital transformation of the parking screening course of.

Road community indicators

The complete size of Dubai’s highway community has grown from 8,715 lane-km in 2006 to 18,768 lane-km in 2022, marking a 115 per cent development.

The variety of bridges and underpasses noticed a giant enhance, from 129 to 988 throughout the identical interval, a 666 per cent growth.

Moreover, the variety of pedestrian bridges and underpasses elevated from 26 in 2006 to 122 in 2022, a rise of 369 per cent.

Efforts to ramp up site visitors security requirements have contributed to a big drop in incident-related fatalities, from roughly 22 instances per 100,000 of the inhabitants in 2006 to just one.9 instances in 2022, putting Dubai among the many finest international cities by way of site visitors security alongside city centres in Sweden, Norway, and Japan.

These enhancements have put the UAE within the international high tier in highway high quality between 2013 and 2017 and secured it a excessive worldwide rating within the highway and highways satisfaction index in 2020.

.@HamdanMohammed visits Dubai’s Intelligent Traffic Systems (ITS) Centre in Al Barsha, one of many largest and most superior site visitors management centres on this planet. The centre boosts Dubai’s capability to satisfy its rising wants rising from its rising urbanisation. #Dubai pic.twitter.com/I7OBP1KNRl

— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) September 5, 2023