RTA plans smart rating for heavy vehicles

Dubai - The procedure is in line with the assessment of risks of vehicles, drivers and operators at world-class standards.

Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) will launch a smart rating system for heavy vehicles as part of its hi-tech solutions to curb accidents.A rating out of ten and a colour coding would be implemented to curtail faults sustained by heavy vehicles, and fend off the erratic driving attitudes.
"We have embarked on developing an integrated system and technological applications enabling us to monitor and analyse data pertaining to faults sustained by heavy vehicles. The procedure is in line with the assessment of risks of vehicles, drivers and 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. RTA is in the final stages of setting up a smart monitoring centre fitted with sophisticated technological systems linked with the monitoring devices fixed on heavy vehicles, enabling the concerned parties at the centre to contact RTA's road patrols to identify violating vehicles.
"The aim of the project is to curb accidents 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," said Bahrozyan.
"RTA implements Operators and Vehicles Risks Rating mechanism aimed at alleviating the burden on operators as well as drivers. Whenever a vehicle is inspected with no faults detected, it would be awarded a rating of zero. 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 colour coding would be made: Green, Yellow and Red," he added.
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