Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) system to monitor fatigue and fatigue among public transport bus drivers has reduced the number of accidents caused by fatigue and driver attention by 65% over the past year.
The Authority's annual report for 2018, which was reviewed by Emirates Today, revealed that six cases of daily fatigue were monitored on average on 300 buses in which the system was implemented last year.
In 2016, the TRA launched the 'Sergeant' system, whose idea relies on monitoring the driver's actions by reading and analyzing the emotions of his face and gestures via a camera connected to the control system of the Public Transport Agency in the Authority. Concentration or preoccupation of the driver for any reason. The controller immediately appeals to the driver for corrective action.
The first experimental phases of the implementation of the system at the time, which took four months, showed about 20,000 cases of deviation from the route by 50 public transport buses, which were used as a sample of the experiment to examine the feasibility of the application of the system.
The Censor system broadcasts details of the driver's performance and behavior through a live and direct transfer to the control center of the organization. Cases in which the observer immediately intervenes at the center include any hazardous driving situation, such as fatigue, lack of concentration as a result of falling asleep or busy Off the road, either by phone or by any other matter.
The system also detects potential collisions and deviations from the lane to allow for immediate intervention by the observer, as well as negative behaviors in the driver's driving, such as reckless braking, sudden wrap, and overtaking, and can monitor the operational efficiency of buses on the road.
The reports issued by the TRA pointed to positive results of the implementation of the system, where it confirmed that monitoring and follow-up drivers through the system, has been able to reduce the cases of distraction and lack of concentration of drivers by 83%, compared to their behavior before and after the application of the system.
The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has started to pilot the system in a tramway this year to achieve the highest safety standards, in light of the results of scientific studies issued in the field of transport and communications, which confirmed that 95% of bus accidents were caused by human errors, which led to The Authority is to start testing the system in trams, which are no less dangerous than driving public buses in terms of the type of damage caused by accidents.
number of passengers
Last year, 91,898,963 passengers were transported by public buses in the emirate of Dubai, which were transported by buses of a fleet of 1,520 buses on 133 routes spread across the streets and areas of Dubai.
Last year, the number of tram passengers reached 6,395,117.