Reduce to 4 minutes waiting time for taxis in Dubai during major events

Dubai Hashim Behroozian, executive director of the Dubai Transport and Transport Authority (RTA), revealed on Wednesday that the event management system has been put in place to reduce the waiting time for taxis at major sites. conference 15 minutes to 4 minutes maximum. Or more than 70%.

"The system is based on advanced technology and was officially launched at Gitex, which took place last month at the Dubai World Trade Center," said Behroozian, adding that the center had been chosen because It represented the largest number of events in Dubai, an effective rate every day.

He added that the development of the system will prevent pressure and delay in providing a taxi service to major and important event sites, which is sometimes between 15 and 30 minutes.

He explained that the system is a system of calculation between the supply and demand of taxi services, through the monitoring of information through sensors or sensors distributed on the parking lot waiting for parking taxis, and thus making it possible to determine the number of vehicles entering and leaving without the need to have supervisory accounts manually. The sensors will take pictures of the taxi board and determine the organization that will follow.

He explained that the project would contribute to the provision of taxi services during the events and major events in Dubai, not only by increasing the number of vehicles, but also by managing the service request process during events, where vehicles are a basic means of transportation for passengers, up to the transportation of cabins and passengers traveling at a specific time of the day to use the taxi service.

He highlighted the benefits of the system, as there is a link between the system and the Authority's taxi reservation and distribution center, who will be able to log in to the system to find out what is going on. has a shortage somewhere without waiting for the information, to immediately direct the taxis to the desired location.

He explained that the system is equipped with screens placed in the waiting areas near the taxi collection areas, used by the passenger to request the taxi service and also determine the number of passengers in the same taxi. He added that the purpose of the screen is to clarify the waiting time on the customer's site, so that if the waiting time is increased up to a certain limit for more than 10 minutes or more for any reason, passengers will be directed to other transportation options such as subway or bus. He added that if the customer did not want to wait any longer, guiding other options would serve to raise awareness and promote the use of other available means of transportation.

He added that the system is designed so that it can be easily removed and that, in the second phase of the project, it will be tested in different ways, creating a system center for the system inside the vehicle. as the meeting place of the system working group, as well as screens, numbers and many other services. During major events for long hours and sometimes in uncomfortable weather conditions