The system achieved 3 benefits during the Corona pandemic

Dubai Roads is developing an app synonymous with “Vehicle Safety”, making it easier for companies to track their trucks

Vehicle Safety monitors the behavior of truck drivers by satellite.

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The Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai stated that it has developed a smart application synonymous with the "vehicle safety" system that includes data and information about truck rest locations in the emirate, and enables companies to access the system through a mobile phone, which speeds up their role in tracking their trucks.

The authority has identified three benefits provided by the "vehicle safety" system during the period of national sterilization and a complete ban in the Emirate of Dubai, which was applied as part of precautionary measures to limit the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19), the most important of which is being able to track down trucks violating the prohibition system by going off the road during sterilization hours. the National.

The executive director of the licensing agency at the authority, Abdullah Al Ali, told «Emirates Today» that the system used by the authority in controlling heavy vehicles and ensuring that their drivers follow traffic safety procedures, has enabled the authority to track the movement of vehicles during the period of movement restriction, explaining that some drivers They used to drive their vehicles for long hours in order to deliver the cargo they were transporting or to reach a break, without noticing that the ban had entered the period.

The idea of ​​the "vehicle safety" system, which is linked to the traffic system in the emirate, is based on installing a monitoring device in heavy vehicles registered in the Emirate of Dubai. The movement of vehicles registered in the system can be tracked in real time and the behavior of their drivers is monitored by linking the movement and data of vehicles to the system via satellite tracking systems. And the cellular communications network, which contributes to improving the operations of trucks on the one hand, and ensures that drivers adhere to traffic safety standards and conditions as a result of ensuring that they are monitored on the other hand.

Al Ali stated that the system had benefits during the movement restriction period, in addition to its primary function in raising the level of traffic safety, pointing to its use during that period to guide drivers to the nearest break and alert them to the distance and time required to reach it, and to help them reduce time and effort, and not Exposure to violating the ban procedures.

He added that among the benefits of the system is preventing trucks from entering closed residential and commercial areas due to sterilization, and informing them when approaching the need to stay away and not enter them, in implementation of the precautionary measures followed.

He added that one of the features of the system is that the vehicle registered in it is not allowed to move except when the driver logs into the system with his card and identifies his data and his mobile phone number, so that he can drive the vehicle, which ensures that he is recognized, notes are directed and contacted directly in case he commits any wrong practices.

Truck rest station

The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority announced, last August, the completion of 55% of the construction of an integrated truck rest station in Dubailand near Emirates Road, in partnership with the private sector, so that the rest area will be the first integrated truck rest area that meets all basic and daily needs. For truck and heavy vehicle drivers across the emirate of Dubai.

The station has an area of ​​five hectares, and provides 100 parking spaces 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.

Monitor drivers' behavior

The Executive Director of the Licensing Agency, Abdullah Al Ali, said that one of the most prominent features of the vehicle safety system is the low percentage of accidents committed by truck drivers, as a result of controlling them, so that the trucks registered in the system did not commit any traffic accidents, as well as enabling the authority and companies to follow the path. The geographical location of trucks, monitoring the behavior of drivers, and classifying their risks according to criteria that divide them into groups in terms of degree of risk, in addition to the possibility of cargo owners using the system to track the path of their shipments transported through those vehicles, and determine the date of their arrival to them.

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