Dubai’s RTA introduces rail automated system to enhance paperless transactions

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has partnered with Keolis-MHI (operator of Dubai Metro and Tram) to launch the Rail Automated System Project to trial a paperless initiative that uses advanced technology.

This system is aimed to enhance paperless transactions that RTA is committed to ensuring for the purpose of supporting the ‘Paperless Government’ policy as well as the UAE’s Fourth Industrial Revolution Strategy 2017.

Through close collaboration between RTA’s Rail Agency and Keolis MHI, the scope of work for this initiative was mapped out to ensure its success, and a total of 11 business modules were identified as having the greatest need for digitisation, including ‘Permit to Work’, which allow access to large-scale work and activities to happen on the Metro/Tram, Dubai Metro Operation Control Centre, Dubai Tram Operation Control Centre, Environment – Management of Power/Energy/Waste, and others.

. @rta_dubai launches the Rail Automated System (RAS) Project to enhance paperless transactions that @rta_dubai is progressively committed to ensure on purpose of supporting the Paperless Government policy. #Dubaihttps://t.co/1Koz6xY2tv pic.twitter.com/QOSR7ArO6R

— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) August 25, 2022

The initiative is compatible with RTA’s objective of expanding and improving its level of digitisation and sustainability in rail operations.

In recent news, RTA has said it is launching a digital platform on a trial basis in the form of a smart app to meet and asses public demand for its medium-sized bus services. The authority recently signed an agreement with arcab, a mobility service, to enable the trial and digital platform.

The trial platform will be operational in two of Dubai’s districts. The first route will take commuters between International City/Dubai Silicon Oasis and Jebel Ali Free Zone.

Read: Dubai’s RTA to trial smart app to meet demand for medium-sized bus services