An advanced system that monitors drivers' behavior with artificial intelligence
46% decrease in the traffic accidents index in Dubai within 9 months
Al-Marri praised the Traffic Department's achievements and its future projects.
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The traffic accidents index in Dubai decreased by 46% during the past nine months from the beginning of the year to the end of last September, which contributed to the decrease in the death rate by 42%, by 76 cases compared to 132 deaths during the same period last year, according to the General Traffic Department records that The Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant General Abdullah Khalifa Al-Marri, examined it during his tour of the department within the annual inspection program.
The General Traffic Department revealed a package of advanced technologies that included an advanced system that monitors drivers' behaviors while driving based on artificial intelligence techniques, which simulate the role of a traffic officer, and it was able to record 970 violations of using a mobile phone while driving, in addition to trying a modern device to monitor wrongly crossing violations. For pedestrians, during the period of his experiment, he was able to record 179 violations of pedestrians who did not comply with the correct crossing, which would endanger their lives and the safety of others.
In detail, the Traffic Department of Dubai Police announced that the death index has decreased by 42%, by 76 cases since the beginning of this year until the end of September, compared to 132 deaths during the same period last year, while the number of severe injuries decreased 10.2%, and minor injuries decreased by 47.4. The average number of injuries decreased by 46%.
The General Traffic Department recorded 262,940 serious traffic violations during the past nine months, which varied between driving in a way that endangers the driver’s life and the safety and security of others, failure of light vehicles to adhere to the mandatory lane, sudden deviation, tire inappropriateness while walking, and heavy vehicles not abiding by the lane. It is mandatory, and transporting passengers in excess of the schedule in the means of minibuses, bypassing truck drivers in a dangerous way, entering the road without ensuring that it is clear, overtaking on the side of the road, not leaving enough distance behind front vehicles, and vehicle drivers not abiding by traffic signs and instructions Pedestrians crossing the road from places not designated for their crossing, in addition to standing in the middle of the road without justification.
The Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police, Lieutenant General Abdullah Khalifa Al-Marri, praised the General Department of Traffic's achievements and its future projects, stressing the importance of working within clear strategic plans, harnessing and adapting all modern technologies and technology, making use of them in developing and sustaining the work system, and qualifying experts in various traffic specialties.
For his part, the Director of the Traffic Accidents Department, Lieutenant Colonel Abdullah bin Ghaleb, revealed that one death was recorded during the month of September, attributing that to the intensification of awareness campaigns and traffic initiatives, explaining that the department organized six awareness campaigns during the current year, which benefited more than 36 thousand. Persons, which included pedestrian safety, accident-free Ramadan, sudden deviation, not leaving enough distance, accident-free summer, and back to school.
He stated that the violation of lack of appreciation by road users topped the list of causes of traffic accidents leading to death, followed by not leaving a sufficient distance, then standing in the middle of the road, excessive speed, negligence and lack of attention, and other violations of varying degrees.
The Director of Traffic Technologies Department at the General Traffic Department, Colonel Muhammad Karam, revealed that 113,580 traffic violations were recorded using the technique of "automatic analysis" without any human intervention, pointing out that the project relies on automatic relaying for the process of processing, inserting and deporting violations of technical control devices without interference. Human beings using artificial intelligence techniques, to ensure accurate tuning and recording.
He demonstrated an advanced system to monitor the places of pedestrian crossing, by means of a device that contains a number of cameras and sensors associated with a traffic light, which is used to monitor the crossing area and monitor pedestrian violators, pointing to the recording of 179 wrongful crossing violations by one device that is currently being tested.
He reviewed a device that monitors drivers' behaviors based on artificial intelligence techniques that simulate the real role of a traffic officer, indicating that 970 violations of using a mobile phone while driving were issued with this system.
Security guard training
The Director of the Traffic Institute, Colonel Essam Al-Awar, presented the institute’s projects, including the Intelligent Traffic Institute project, the International Traffic Institute Accreditation Project, and the Security Guard Training Project, which has included more than 2,000 security guards since the project was launched in 2018.
While the Traffic Campaigns and Awareness Department of the General Traffic Department has implemented a number of campaigns during the current year, coinciding with the new Corona virus pandemic, benefiting 7,690 people.
Bicycle campaigns
The bicycle and electric campaigns carried out by the Deira and Bur Dubai traffic patrols resulted in the seizure of 12,234 bicycles and electric bicycles, and 694 motorcycles were seized, compared to 2,356 bicycles and electric bicycles and 392 motorcycles during the same period last year.
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One thousand dangerous traffic violations recorded by the Traffic Department during the past nine months.
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