The “Ali Baba” and “Dubai Roads” agreement will increase the number of public transport passengers by 17%

Today, the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai signed an agreement with the global company “Ali Baba Cloud”, a pioneer in the field of big data, with the aim of improving and developing the authority’s services in transporting passengers through various means of public transport through the City Brain project implemented by the authority and is expected to contribute to increasing The number of public transport passengers increased by 17%.

The Executive Director of the Public Transport Corporation, Ahmed Hashem Bahrozyan, said during a meeting with the media, in which "Emirates Today" participated, while attending the activities of the Dubai International Conference for Self-Driving Transport, that the agreement with "Ali Baba Cloud" comes within the framework of the authority's continuous work to improve transportation and transportation services. In the Emirate, in terms of providing it as soon as possible and according to the needs of the passengers. He added that the agreement will allow the authority to benefit from the data repository provided by “Ali Baba Cloud” on the movement of passengers and transport, which will enable the authority to develop immediate and strategic transport plans, which will be more effective as a result of relying on live, updated and instantaneous information on the direction of transport and passenger movement, and the volume of demand. On different means, regions and services.

Bahrozyan said that the advanced technical systems of “Ali Baba Cloud” in the field of artificial intelligence will support the authority’s systems and technical capabilities in collecting data from a wide range of information sources and linking them with a number of data and factors, in a manner that serves to raise the level of services provided to public transportation passengers and users of the transportation sector in a way. He added that the agreement focused on tools and technologies that fall within the City Brain system, which represents the largest umbrella that leads through the company's operations of managing and employing big data.

Several months ago, the authority began cooperating with the cloud computing company (Ali Baba Cloud), through the trial operation of the City Brain system, an urban traffic management system, using artificial intelligence techniques and advanced algorithms, through which a large number of people are analyzed. From the huge data received from Nol cards, operating buses, the unified control center for transportation systems, and taxi data, and then transforming it into information that can be used by broadcasting instant alerts, and developing bus schedules, schedules and routes.

According to the Roads and Transport Authority, the system is expected to contribute to an increase in the number of passengers by 17%, and to improve the average waiting time by 10%, as well as the journey time and average bus usage time by 5%.

It is noteworthy that the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai announced last July the return of the growth in the number of bus, taxi and marine transport users, prior to the pandemic, by 70%, and the initiatives contributed to reducing the number of kilometers traveled by 18%, and improving the accuracy of bus arrivals by 6%. and reducing carbon emissions by 34 million metric tons.

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