“Dubai Roads” aims to reduce traffic accidents to 1.7 cases per 100,000 people in 2026

Mona Al -Osaimi, Executive Director of the Strategy and Institutional Governance Sector in the Roads and Transport Authority, said that the authority aims to reduce traffic accidents to 1.7 cases per 100,000 people by next year.

Al -Osaimi explained to «Emirates Today» that the authority initiated an integrated road map for the sustainability of public transport in the Emirate of Dubai in 2030, where future directions for sustainable movement include supporting the leadership role of the emirate in the field of sustainable development globally in line with the global goals of sustainable development.

She added that with regard to the axis of environmental sustainability, the map included future trends to shift towards infrastructure and transportation that can be adaptable to climate change, in addition to the shift towards public transport without emissions within the environmental axis of the plan, and the economic axis also included highlighting the shift towards the investment of various sources, achieving the circular economy and leadership in the level of maturity of asset management, and Al -Osaimi mentioned that The map aspires to achieve the goal of global leadership in the field of customer experience (CX), and to reduce work injuries to zero by 2028, in addition to reducing the deaths resulting from traffic accidents to achieve the goal 1.7 deaths per 100,000 population by next year.

She pointed out that the most expected results from the strategy application lies in reaching 25% of the transport trips in Dubai to be self -driving by 2030, the development of a technical and flexible transportation sector based on data by 100% by 2030, and the arrival of zero emissions from public transportation and infrastructure in 2050, and the transformation towards the circular economy in the authority by 100% by 2030.

She emphasized that the commission has made remarkable achievements in terms of its leadership in setting regulations and plans at the institutional level in the field of sustainability, as the first government agency in the Middle East and North Africa was to obtain a British standard certificate BS 8001: 2017 in the circular economy from the British Standards Institute, and the first party in the Middle East region to set a long -term specialized strategy to turn towards public transportation with a net public transportation “Safaria” emissions by 2050, and the first party in the field of transportation and transportation globally to win the ISO certificate “2017: 20400” from the British Institute for Standards.