UAE - Mubasher: Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has collected AED 2.655 billion in revenues via digital channels during 2020, the Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of RTA, Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer, announced.

The number of digital transactions and smart apps downloads reached 527.146 million and 6.136 million, respectively, while the number of registered users on digital platforms hit 2.162 million, according to a recent press release.

Al Tayer also referred that the rate of digitisation of RTA’s transactions exceeded 91%.

Meanwhile, RTA’s big data amounted to 127 terabytes by the end of 2020, which is equivalent to archiving 64 billion papers.

Al Tayer remarked: "RTA was among the first government entities that had transformed all transactions of customers into smart services featured by innovative designs and accessibility. Accordingly, RTA was in a position to ensure the continuity of business and deliver customer services at high-class standards during COVID-19 lockdown."

The Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of RTA commented: "RTA is currently updating and following-up the implementation of 111 projects as part of its digital strategy 2020-2024. It intends to launch a roadmap of future technologies in the last quarter of this year, and undertake a roadmap of the 5th generation technologies in the second quarter of next year."