Dubai Roads begins installing 151 smart screens to instantly update public bus schedules

The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that the first phase of installing the new generation of smart screens in public bus stations is imminent. Smart Dubai. “

Khaled Al-Awadhi, Director of the Transportation Systems Department at the Public Transport Authority at the Authority, said: The installation of 151 smart screens has been started in several public bus stations in the Emirate of Dubai, including 9 stations that will be completed during the current year 2020, which helps public transport users to know first the dates. Buses through immediate updates of information on this matter, saving effort and time for bus-goers, and avoiding them waiting during their trip planning in the event of any emergency changes or rescheduling of trips.

He added: This new generation of screens is powered by solar energy within the framework of our wise leadership directions by adopting clean and alternative energy in the emirate’s projects and using environmentally friendly technologies, which has become a method and method of work for the Roads and Transport Authority, and that this project comes within the framework of the “smart city” initiative launched by the government Dubai, in addition to the authority’s efforts to facilitate the use of public transport and provide the best services, stressing that it is planned that these screens will provide new smart services such as the arrival time of the bus and the next at the station. By providing them to dealers.

Al-Awadi explained that among the new services, huge screens will be provided in the main waiting areas that clarify all the information that helps customers to use public transport in stations, and that among the efforts made by the authority to support the Expo event is the possibility of providing screens for the most important information about the Expo and updating the event data accompanying the event. To help public transportation users plan to attend their most important activities.