RTA Dubai and DubaiPolice discuss management of traffic accidents, safety of transport means.
Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai and the Dubai Police are planning to launch a scheme that will reduce the time of clearing an accident scene to 12 minutes. The project is also expected to reduce traffic snarls and associated expenses by 25 per cent, the RTA said on Tuesday.
The RTA in cooperation with Dubai police are working on a specialised traffic management project that will cut down accident related delays by 25 per cent on Dubai highways.
According to RTA, accidents in Dubai cost the emirate’s economy Dh1.8 billion annually, with more than 50 per cent of the traffic jams being triggered by road mishaps.
Details of the project were discussed in a meeting between Mattar Al Tayer, director-general and chairman of the board of executive directors of the RTA, and Major-General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, Commander-in-Chief of the Dubai Police.
Al Tayer and Al Marri discussed traffic bottlenecks in residential areas bordering Sharjah, such as Al Mizhar, Al Khawaneej, Oud Al Mateena and Al Muhaisna as well as the efforts of the RTA to ease the mobility of residents of the neighbourhood. Such efforts include construction of road network linking Dubai and the northern emirates and enforcing ban on movement of trucks and worker buses in residential areas adjacent to the northern emirates.
“When implemented, the project is expected to reduce snarls and the associated expenses by 25 per cent. It will ensure the arrival and clearance of the accident scene within 12 minutes, slash the time taken to clear crashed vehicles, detect accidents ensure rapid deployment before congestion builds up or the occurrence of secondary accidents. The scheme also includes delivering assistance to motorists experiencing vehicle breakdown by removing them from traffic lanes and coordinating their immediate clearance,” he said.
طرق دبي و شرطة دبي يبحثان تقليل الزمن المستغرق في إدارة الحوادث المروية بنسبة 25% وكذلك الجهود للحد من الازدحامات المرورية في المناطق السكنية المحاذية لإمارة الشارقة. #دبي pic.twitter.com/LQfgnILL5N— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) December 12, 2017
Al Tayer, hopes that the new management system along with the new road expansion projects linking Dubai and the northern emirates will help ease congestion.
