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HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), announced the launch of a bachelor degree program offering scholarships for some of the RTA employees to pursue studies on futuristic academic majors such as innovation and shaping the future.
He also unveiled Elites & Pioneers Programs for training two groups of Directors. The first bunch will join the Elite Program that will be undertaken in collaboration with London Business School, which ranks amongst the top Business Administration colleges worldwide. The second group will join the Pioneers Program coordinated with one of the Top 4 consultancy firms worldwidel. Al Tayer also announced the launch of Projects Program for training employees on the management of projects, programs, and project portfolios at all levels including potential project managers.
Al Tayer made these announcements during the annual gathering marking RTA’s 11th anniversary, attended by CEOs, Directors and scores of employees.
Al Tayer also launched the Happiest Work Environment Award with the aim of nurturing a happy work environment. The best agency or sector as well as the best department achieving the highest employee satisfaction rating will be honoured. He also announced that the allocations to the Tamayyaz Box would be doubled, and a vehicle would be issued to the winning agency/sector and another one to the winning Department such that it could be allocated to any employee for one year. “The employees of the winning agency and sector will be promoted, and a budget will be allocated to the winning agency or sector, and another one to the winning department,” noted Al Tayer.
Al Tayer stressed RTA’s keenness on realising the directives of the Government to foster an ideal environment for supporting citizens, and grooming young leaders who are capable of envisioning the future and innovating future leadership tools.
“We have started on training Emirati youth on several transport-related fields such as rail operation and maintenance, self-driving transport, and modern trends of bus service. Last year, RTA embarked on building the core of specialists in shaping the future, and specialist teams were formed to undertake projects in the field of AI and Big Data. It has also launched a 5-Year Digitisation Strategy, and Driverless Transport Strategy besides automating an array of internal procedures to utilise technolgoies and database in improving procedures to make them smarter and more productive. It also attended to improving the organisational chart to make it compatible with the future through introducing specialist organisational units such as the AI Section, and the Driverless Vehicles Section,” added Al Tayer.
Future Projects
Al Tayer reviewed the outlines of RTA Business Plan 2018 that is focused on executing the government policy in sustainable development, people’s happiness, global competitiveness, smart city & AI, shaping the future, and the knowledge economy. “RTA is keen on complementing the infrastructure of roads and transport, which is the backbone of the economy. Accordingly it has engaged in developing projects around the site of Expo 2020, Route 2020 Project extending 15 km where completion rate has hit 30%, the Central Traffic Control Center Project at Al Barsha, and the marine transport stations and facilities. It will focus on achieving financial sustainablity through partnerships with the private sector, and apply shaping the future tools to the planning of future projects. It will also leverage the role of knowledge & innovation management in driving RTA’s efforts in future.
Al Tayer praised employees for their efforts, which enabled RTA to overcome challenges and make headway. Such achievements are highlighted by the opening of the Enterprise Command and Control Centre (EC3) for transport and road systems; a unique centre worldwide in applying self-technologies and controlling all transit modes in Dubai. It had also opened several road construction projects.
Closing the ceremony, Al Tayer honoured the distinguished directors across RTA including Ms Laila Faridoon, Executive Director of the Office of RTA Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors; Ms Kawther Kazim, Executive Director of Human Resources and Development; Hussain Al Banna, Executive Director of Traffic; and Ahmed Mahboub, Executive Director of Customers Service. Honourees also included Jamal Assada, Director of Drivers Licensing; Saeed Al Marri, Director of Contracts & Procurement; Abdullah Al Jawi, Director of Internal Audit; Abdullah Al Bastaki, Director of Technology Strategy & Governance; Ms Moaza Al Marri, Director of Marketing & Corporate Communication; and Fahad Al Suwaidi, Director of Development and Corporate Performance. Excellent-performing employees, inspectors and bus drivers were also honoured during the event.
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