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Next year… Integrated
Mobility Platform for all
means of transport
Solutions: monitoring the network; deploying patches and upgrades on time
Dubai›s Roads andTransport Authority (RTA)
isworkingondevelopingacommonbooking
and payment app for all modes of transports
in Dubai called Integrated Mobility Platform
(IMP), which will give customers easy access
to all mass transit systems through a single
window or smart app.
Mattar Al Tayer, director-general and
chairman of the Board of Executive
Directors of RTA, said the IMP will achieve
integration of the RTA’smulti-modal transit
systems, including metro, tram, buses and
marine transit means, with Monorail in
Palm Jumeirah and Dubai Trolley. E-Hail
services, such as Uber and Careem, will be
integrated in a later stage through the IMP,
which enables the user to book the service
and pay the fare.
This came during Al Tayer›s attendance at
an innovation lab on Dubai IMP project,
which was organized by the RTA and
attended by more than 60 stakeholders and
a number of UAE and foreign consultants
and experts to study the technical and
legislative aspects of the project and the
customer service in order to achieve
the smooth flow of mobility options
information in Dubai.
Al Tayer stressed that the integrated
transport platform project in Dubai
achieves the RTA vision of providing a
«safe and smooth transport for all», and is
in consistent with the first strategic goal
«Smart Dubai» and the second strategic
goal «Integration of Dubai», as well as the
third strategic goal «Bringing Happiness to
People.»
Al Tayer added that the project will be
undertaken in several phases and is
expected to be concluded in 2017.
Phase
I
includes
developing
the
technological
infrastructure
of
the
platform, integrating RTA transit means
and integrating limo services of the Dubai
Taxi Corporation. It will also include
providing information about bikes, cycling
tracks and racks, starting the issuance of
operation permits for the electronic taxi
booking services such as Uber, Careem
and others, and developing a system for
organizational monitoring of limousine
services.
Phase II covers integrating electronic
taxi booking services, and establishing
agreements with transport partners and
integrating them in a partial manner with
the platform.
Phase III is concerned with holding
agreements with most stakeholders
to integrate them in the platform, and
establishing the payment process offered
by the platform using the Nol card.