Dubai Roads completes 55% of the integrated truck rest station on Emirates Road
The Director General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority, Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer, announced the completion of 55% of the project to establish an integrated truck rest station in Dubailand near Emirates Road, in partnership with the private sector. The basic and daily needs of truck drivers and heavy vehicles at the level of Dubai.
He said: The Emirati Desert Group, the developer of the project, has completed 55% of the project's work, as the group has completed all the preliminary and preparatory processes that precede the construction process, which includes obtaining all non-objection certificates from service authorities, leveling the land and protecting service lines, and obtaining a license Final construction from stakeholders.
He added: The area of the station is 5 hectares, and it includes 100 parking lots for trucks and heavy vehicles and a number of facilities and services that meet all the basic and daily needs of truck drivers and heavy vehicles, in addition to a specialized technical examination center for heavy vehicles, indicating that the authority aims to establish the station to solve a problem The parking of trucks on main roads and residential areas, and meeting the increasing demand for truck stops, as the number of truck trips in Dubai is about 145 thousand trips per day, through which about three million tons are transported per day, and the station contributes to raising the level of traffic safety and reducing the percentage of accidents caused by movement Trucks, and contribute to increasing the flow of traffic during times of prohibited traffic of trucks, and through the implementation of this project, the authority seeks to increase the participation of the private sector in the implementation of infrastructure projects and services.
Matar Mohammed Al Tayer indicated that the project will achieve additional financial savings for the Roads and Transport Authority by obtaining revenue from the project with the investor on the one hand, and it also provides opportunities for investors to participate in development projects and increase investments in various fields on the other hand, as the project contributes to improving the quality of services. The public sector, and the transfer of knowledge, experience and innovation from the private sector to the public sector, in addition to training and qualifying employees of government agencies to manage and follow up this type of long-term projects according to the construction, operation and ownership transfer model.
The Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors confirmed that the Roads and Transport Authority attaches the land transport sector a great priority due to its great role in developing the economic and trade movement, and in support of the Dubai Silk Line initiative that was included in the “50 Document” of the Emirate of Dubai, and the Silk Road Economic Belt initiative, as a state. The United Arab Emirates, the most prominent station on the Silk Road Economic Road, and the gateway to the Middle East and Africa in this project that connects the commercial markets in the region, indicating that the authority carried out a comprehensive study of the movement of trucks in Dubai, which included field surveys, interviews and workshops with the relevant departments and companies, and developed a model Planning to predict future truck movements, studying the need for dry ports or collection and distribution centers for goods, in addition to studying and evaluating the current embargo policies, times and routes, and studying the need for trucking roads, in addition to organizational and structural aspects related to managing the movement of trucks and goods in the Emirate of Dubai.
He said: The Roads and Transport Authority has implemented 18 temporary truck breaks on the right of the road, with a total parking capacity of 538 stops, and distributed these breaks in a number of vital roads in the Emirate of Dubai, to provide safe and comfortable parking for trucks during the ban period, with all rest houses fully operational. The authority has completed the technical and commercial studies for the two permanent truck rest sites, the first in the Jebel Ali area in the third industrial near Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road, and the second in the Ayyas area near Emirates Road, and they will be put up in a public auction next December, according to a partnership with the sector. All the facilities and services needed by drivers and trucks will be available in these two stations, and work is currently underway to study an additional site in the Dubai Industrial City area near Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road, and it will be launched in the future after completing the technical and investment studies.