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Work is progressing according to the plan developed by the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai for introducing intelligent transport systems to all public buses run by RTA Public Transport Agency (PTA).
Such systems, the first of its type in the Middle East, are being integrated with Dubai Metro as well as marine transport modes in the emirate, according to Mohammed Abu Baker Al Hashemi, Director of PTA's Planning & Business Development.
“We have introduced new intelligent systems whereas the punctuality of public bus has now reached 36%, and work is up and running to push this rate as high as 75% by the mid of next year; which promises to be a massive increase completed in a record time compared to seasoned cosmopolitan cities with integrated mass transit systems.
In a city with integrated mass transit modes, such as London, the punctuality of public buses is 75%; a rate achieved over long years of accumulated expertise in this field. Punctuality rate of public buses is 80% in Singapore; which has advanced public transport network with integrated public transport systems,” commented Al Hashemi.
“PTA is implementing Dubai Strategic Transport Model; which is based on advanced strategies simulating the traffic movement of a certain area in order to study the quality of its residents, their life patterns and forecast their future requirements of public transport so as to identify their requirements of public transport and meet them using scientific and well rehearsed methods.
Such methods are based on effective strategies developed in the light of findings of field surveys carried out by the teams of mobility management and transport policies programs of the Agency. Dubai has been divided into more than 1700 Traffic Analysis Zones and before that, the demographic data including the professions have been prepared for all the Traffic Analysis Zones.
Residents have been classified into 17 groups based on gender, demographic groups (citizens and expatriates), and availability of vehicles, depending on the variation of mobility patterns between groups.
