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Mohammed bin Rashid inaugurates a smart center for traffic control with 590 million dirhams

• Mohammed bin Rashid announces the official opening of the Dubai Center for Intelligent Traffic Systems.

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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, inaugurated the Dubai Center for Intelligent Traffic Systems of the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai, at a cost of 590 million dirhams, and is one of the largest and most modern traffic control centers in the world in terms of employing technologies Smart, traffic management, and meets the great expansion in the Emirate of Dubai and the requirements for hosting the Expo 2020.

Upon his arrival at the center in Al Barsha, His Highness was received by the Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority, Matar Muhammad Al Tayer, and a number of officials of the Authority.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum unveiled the memorial, announcing the official opening of the center, then His Highness and the attendees watched a video presentation on the project to develop and expand smart traffic systems, which serves the Dubai government's directions in transforming into the smartest city in the world, and employing smart technologies and software to facilitate The process of commuting in Dubai, and contributes to increasing the coverage of the main road network in the emirate with smart traffic systems from 11% currently to 60%, and improving the time to monitor accidents and congestion on the emirate’s roads and the speed of response to them.

The Dubai Center for Intelligent Traffic Systems forms a renewed vital artery to manage movement in the traffic network of the emirate, and is an integrated technological platform, in which techniques of artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of things and the latest communication systems are employed, in addition to many traffic monitoring devices, information gathering and other smart services. Through smart traffic systems to monitor and manage the current and future road network in all areas of Dubai.

The advanced central technical systems are characterized by linking the traffic control system with field devices (iTraffic) that will act as an integrated technological platform to collect and analyze big data, and help support real-time decision-making to manage traffic, accidents and mega events such as Expo 2020.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum listened to an explanation from Mattar Al Tayer on the project to develop and expand smart traffic systems, which is one of the outputs of the Authority Path 2030 laboratory, and the center provided the advanced traffic control system (iTraffic) enhanced with artificial intelligence techniques, tools for analyzing big data and support for taking the decision.

The center contributes to managing the traffic movement and linking all areas of Dubai, and integrating with the Unified Control Center for transport and road systems. 60 national cadres specialized in managing operations operations have been qualified and developed through specialized training courses in all project systems, operating processes and their technologies, and qualify them for procedures. Maintenance and support systems.

Al Tayer reviewed the details of the project, which included five main packages that included the update and installation of 112 variable digital panels with the latest international technologies, providing instant traffic information to drivers about the state of the road network, such as locations of congestion and traffic accidents, in addition to displaying messages, instructions and important tips related to traffic safety, to increase the efficiency of management Traffic control panels, panels were distributed on selected sites of the road network in Dubai and around major event areas, such as the Expo 2020 site, as well as the installation of traffic monitoring systems and information collection, and it included the installation of 116 traffic surveillance cameras, bringing the number of cameras to 245 cameras, and the installation of 100 accident detection devices. And the number of vehicles, which brings the number of devices to 235 devices.

In addition, 115 counters for flight times and average speeds were installed, and 17 weather-sensing stations, as well as the implementation of electrical power lines and a fiber-optic network for communications between the in situ devices and central systems with a length of 660 km, as the length of the optical fiber network increased to 820 km, and the project also included the implementation of works Developing advanced traffic central system software, which contributes to supporting decision-making and provides automatic response plans, as the central system integrates with field devices, analyzes the data received from them and activates the appropriate plans.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum toured the facilities of the Dubai Center for Intelligent Traffic Systems, which was designed and implemented with the latest international specifications for designing control centers of devices, huge display screens and easy-to-use and effective control systems for operators and engineers of smart traffic systems, as the building includes a specialized center to manage operations Traffic control and management equipped with large display screens, specialized rooms for technical systems, a traffic emergency management room, as well as offices for engineering teams concerned with managing, developing and supporting systems.

His Highness listened to an explanation about the technologies that are unique to the control center, such as artificial intelligence technologies, the Internet of things, big data, data analysis and decision-making support tools, an advanced asset management system, in addition to the techniques of predicting traffic congestion, and traffic control systems at intersections. His Highness is on the integration and linking of traffic surveillance cameras of the authority and the traffic cameras of the Dubai Police General Command, in a way that contributes to the effectiveness of traffic management on roads in the Emirate of Dubai, specifically during events and large events or in emergency and crisis situations.

His Highness and the attendees watched a live presentation of the traffic accident management process, in terms of the speedy arrival of the patrols to the site of the accident, dealing with it and taking out vehicles to restore traffic to its normal state.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was also briefed on the road and bridge projects completed by the authority in the Jebel Ali region, with a length of 119 kilometers, at a cost of 4.6 billion dirhams, and serving the Expo 2020 exhibition, the Jebel Ali industrial zone, the free zone in Jebel Ali, and the Dubai complex. Investment, International Media Production City, and Al Maktoum International Airport.

Road projects included the development of the Basin Roundabout on Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road to a bridge interchange that provides free traffic in all directions, the total length of the roads is 26.6 kilometers, the capacity of the intersection is estimated at 57,000 vehicles per hour, the development of the seventh intersection on Sheikh Zayed Road and the development of the Road Al-Yalayis and the extension of Al-Khail and Al-Asayel Street, through the implementation of roads and bridges of 18.5 kilometers, with an estimated capacity of 29,000 vehicles per hour, and the development of the Jafza Bridge on Sheikh Zayed Road, through the implementation of bridges of 2.5 kilometers, with an estimated capacity of 6000 vehicles per hour. .

The project also included the development of the road network surrounding Expo 2020, with a total of 71 km, while the length of the bridges was 13.4 km, the tunnels were 450 meters, and the capacity of the bridged intersections ranged between 10 and 69 thousand vehicles per hour.

The development of the road network leading to the Expo site included the development of a number of intersections, such as the intersection of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Street with the Expo Street, with the implementation of entrances to the exhibition site from Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Street, the development of the Expo intersection with Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street, and the development of The intersections of Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan Al Nahyan Street in the Dubai Investment District with Al Yalais Street, as well as the intersections of Expo Street and the intersection of Emirates Road and Expo Street, in addition to the implementation of new roads and the development of existing roads.

Traffic accident management

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, was briefed on the results of the trial operation of the joint traffic accident management service project between the Roads and Transport Authority and the Dubai Police General Command, which began operating in September 2018, on Sheikh Mohammed Street Bin Zayed and Expo Street, with a length of about 72 kilometers, by providing 11 vehicles to remove and transport vehicles, and six vehicles to manage traffic accidents, with the aim of rapid intervention and traffic management, removing vehicles involved in minor traffic accidents or vehicles that break down on the roads, improving safety and maintaining the flow of Traffic with accident site security, reducing the total time period to manage the accident site status.

The Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai, Mattar Al Tayer, said in an exhibition explaining that the project contributed to reducing the death accident rate by 42% and increasing the traffic speed rate on Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road by 5.5%. The service is 99%, indicating that the service has dealt within eight months with 12 thousand and 906 traffic cases, including 5071 traffic accidents at a rate of 633 accidents per month, and it has achieved high performance indicators in the average response time to accidents and the average time to evacuate accidents.

Autonomous Mobility Strategy

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, briefed on the road map for digital transformation and the fourth industrial revolution in the transport sector, which included the launch of the Autonomous Mobility 2030 strategy, the digital strategy in mobility, the Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025, and the development of The fourth industrial revolution transport laboratory, as Mattar Al Tayer confirmed that the authority continues to adopt and apply future technologies such as (blockchain), paperless transactions, big data, artificial intelligence, self-driving mobility, and the Internet of Things.

His Highness also briefed on the most important future projects that will enhance Dubai's global leadership in the transport sector, such as the "Smarter Vehicles .. Faster Response" project, the project of building scenarios and preparing infrastructure specifications for autonomous and connected vehicles, as well as projects for the future of smart mobility until 2071.

The Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Roads and Transport Authority, Mattar Al Tayer, stated that the projects that were implemented contributed to the UAE being ranked first in the world in the index of satisfaction with the road and highways system for the year 2020, and first in the region and eighth globally in the self-driving mobility index. For the year 2020, and the indicator of the level of traffic congestion in the emirate of Dubai to 1.21 for the year 2019, ahead of global cities such as Paris, London and Singapore, as well as reducing the rate of road accident deaths in the emirate to 2.3 deaths per 100 thousand of the population in 2019, to make Dubai among the best global cities In the area of ​​safety.

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