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The project involves fitting tracking devices to detect vehicle defects
Roads and Transport Authority - Manal Khaled:
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is set to launch a project for eliminating faults of heavy vehicles in line with the national strategy aimed at improving road safety & security and curbing accidents triggered by heavy vehicles. The project will curtail the negative impacts of faults sustained by heavy vehicles, and fend off erratic driving attitudes of some drivers.
"RTA is in constant pursuit of advanced solutions to improve the traffic awareness & road safety levels involving the exploration of smart projects & systems. In this regard, we have embarked on developing an integrated system & technological applications enabling us to monitor & analyze data pertaining to faults sustained by heavy vehicles. The procedure is in line with the assessment of risks of vehicles, drivers & operators at world-class standards, and the project we launched this year for eliminating faults of heavy vehicles," said Ahmed Bahrozyan, CEO of RTA's Licensing Agency.
"The Vehicle Defect Clearing System (VDCS) is a service intended to improve the monitoring of heavy vehicles in Dubai through fitting them with mandatory Telematics in order to track their defects and monitor driver attitudes. RTA is in the final stages of setting up a smart monitoring center fitted with display monitors and sophisticated technological systems linked with the monitoring devices fixed on heavy vehicles, enabling the concerned parties in the Center to communicate with RTA's road patrols to identify violating vehicles.
"The aim of the project is to curb accidents of heavy vehicles, and strengthen the infrastructure of the Dubai Emirate in particular, and the UAE in general, which in turn would minimize the financial, human and environmental impacts caused by heavy trucks. It also classifies the risks of drivers, vehicles, and operators through a process for calculating the risk of a driver, vehicle or operator failing to comply with RTA's standards," explained Bahrozyan.
"RTA implements Operators & Vehicles Risks Rating mechanism aimed at alleviating the burden on operators & drivers who are compliant with policies, and applying a rigorous monitoring of non-compliant drivers & operators through calculating vehicles risks rating using the data provided by the road technical inspections, remote detection of faults and the annual technical inspection. Whenever a vehicle is inspected with no faults detected, it would be treated as compliant with the safety standards and awarded a rating of zero in every inspection where no faults are detected. Each inspection carried out to the vehicle would be considered as a single inspection and a point would be assigned in respect of each fault or offence, based on the gravity and detected faults. All points would be listed, a final rating out of ten would be assigned, and color coding would be made: Green, Yellow and Red," he noted.
Explaining some data tracked down by the remote system, Bahrozyan said: "There are numerous cases to be reported, some of them are related to technical faults, and others pertain to driver's conduct. We have finalized the trial run of the remote monitoring system and the electronic monitoring system."
Detailing the implementation phases of the project, the CEO of RTA's Licensing Agency, stated: "We would start with fixing remote monitoring devices on heavy vehicles whose lifetime has exceeded 20 years by the second half of 2016. Vehicles whose models exceed 15 years will be fitted with these telematics in the second half of 2017, and the service will cover vehicles whose lifetime has exceeded 10 years in the second half of 2018. In 2019, the system will be applied to all commercial vehicles."
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© Press Release 2016
