Smart route to happiness

The RTA is also planning to bring to Dubai the best minds in autonomous transport by creating the first international competition on self-driving vehicles.

In an early interview with Khaleej Times, Ahmed Hashem Bahrozyan, CEO of RTA’s Licensing Agency and concurrent head of RTA’s Smart Vehicles Committee, said: “Dubai is the first city to declare such an ambitious project for self-driving transportation (SDT). This international competition will allow manufacturers, operators and universities around the world to showcase how advance these SDT technologies are and this (competition) will also assure the public that autonomous vehicles are safe.”

“The idea is to convince them to come to Dubai because we are a smart city. We want them to do their testing here and we will also learn the capabilities of these autonomous vehicles. Once driverless transport is ready, Dubai is also ready,” he underlined.

RTA’s happiness strategy is also based on providing smart services and integrated mass transit system to achieve safe and smooth transport for all. “The RTA’s Happiness Strategy comprises 12 key pillars, six of them at the community level, and the other six at the individual level. These pillars are aligned with RTA’s strategy of providing an integrated mass transit system including a seamless roads and marine transport network, and the shift towards smart government by providing smart services to customers,” the RTA told Khaleej Times.

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