The Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority, Mattar Al Tayer, said that the total number of flights implemented by Dubai Taxi Corporation during the period from 1995 to December 2019 amounted to 682 million trips, during which more than one billion passengers were transported, indicating that The Corporation’s fleet size increased from 81 vehicles at the beginning of operation in 1995 to 5201 vehicles in 2019, the number of drivers increased from 886 drivers to 11500 drivers, the number of employees jumped from 23 employees to 1131 employees, and the services provided by the Foundation witnessed a major jump from one service From 1995 to 13 services in 2019.
Al Tayer visited the Dubai Taxi Corporation, and during the visit he reviewed the uses of artificial intelligence to improve the passenger transport service at the institution, where artificial intelligence was employed in achieving a balance between the supply and demand for taxi service, as well as in the analysis of flight data, and the smart orientation of the fleet to the regions most in demand The service, in addition to its use in safe driving by monitoring drivers' behaviors and their commitment to safe driving standards, also viewed the new update in the Dubai Taxi Smart App (DTC), which covers regular taxi service and limousine services, electric limousine, and limousine N Amira, and the application contributed to reducing the average taxi arrival time for the customer to 6.5 minutes, and the application allows access to multiple services such as obtaining a driver, safe hands, princess, and people of determination.
During the visit, he listened to an explanation about the Airport Terminal 3 taxi automation project, which aims to increase the number of vehicles, organize the process of vehicle inspections, and reduce waiting time from 11 minutes to five minutes, and the project includes increasing the number of taxi reservation channels, such as reservation when purchasing Travel ticket, or through screens in the plane, or through the DTC smart app, or via smart devices distributed in the airport terminal, and to ensure the success of the project, the Foundation employed artificial intelligence and big data analysis techniques.
Also, see the new generation of Toyota Hybrid vehicles that have joined the fleet of Dubai Taxi Corporation. Modern models are characterized by a decrease in the fuel consumption rate by 47%, and then a decrease in the carbon emission rate by 47% as well. This initiative comes within the framework of the authority’s commitment to the green mobility strategy aimed at achieving the percentage of inclusion of electric and hybrid vehicles from the total annual purchases of new and rented vehicles in the government fleet to 10% by 2020. And in implementation of the strategy to reduce carbon emissions in the Emirate of Dubai, which aims to reduce it by about 16% by In 2021, in addition to the authority’s plan to convert 50% of Dubai taxis into hybrid vehicles by 2021, see the Tesla Model 3 vehicle and the hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle, a Toyota Mirai.