How Dubai will identify, analyse, fix accident spots

A new mechanism to identify, analyse and cope with recurrent traffic accident spots in Dubai is underway, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced.

The solution is an electronic program, which contributes to providing specialists with the required data, information and tools necessary for taking appropriate decisions in dealing with traffic safety issues.

The frequency of casualties and the number of traffic accidents recorded over three successive years will classify specific areas as recurrent accident sites, explained Maitha bin Udai, CEO of the Licensing Agency at the RTA.

These data will be analysed by specialist engineers during their site visits where they will be able to identify the required engineering procedures to cope with the problem areas.

“Such measures will be applied to the database and statistics of traffic accidents and then entered into the GIS of the RTA,” she noted.

“The Traffic and Roads Agency is taking a host of precautionary and technical measures as well as preventive engineering procedures based on technical reports and numerical statistics in monitoring and tracking the sites of recurrent traffic accidents in order to take remedial actions and ensure their number will not rise in the coming years.

“This can be done through auditing traffic safety procedures adopted in new road projects during the design, construction phases as well as after project completion,” added Maitha.

For the development of the new system the RTA has carried out an extensive study, comparing the existing system in Dubai with that of 15 countries.
 

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