UAE: New control centre to monitor and operate taxi services

Sharjah Taxi, part of the Sharjah Asset Management Company, the venture arm of the Government of Sharjah, introduced Thursday morning the Sharjah Taxi Control Center, which will fill in as another expansion to the Company’s shrewd and creative administrations.

Notwithstanding the various advantages it gives to clients, drivers and local area in general, the Taxi Control Center mirrors the speeding up advanced change in Sharjah, and upholds its endeavors to upgrade the administrations gave to people in general.

Furnished with the state of the art advancements to screen and work taxi transportation benefits, the Control Center is worked by eight representatives for each shift, taking care of the activities of almost 750 taxicabs in Sharjah City and Sharjah International Airport, as well as the Eastern Province.

The Center likewise screens drivers’ off-base practices, guides them to sound lead, and guarantees their responsibility and adherence to the guidelines.

The Control Center adds to raising functional productivity by circling back to the accessibility of vehicles in fundamental areas and occasion settings as well as at Sharjah Airport, and guiding drivers to the areas with popularity. With severe checking of drivers’ direct and client assistance requests, the Center decreases mishaps, quality objections and petty criminal offenses. It likewise adds to diminishing costs, especially fuel utilization costs.

With an armada of around 750 vehicles of different kinds, Sharjah Taxi had the option to move almost 5.87 million travelers last year, with a normal of 16,000 travelers each day, through vehicles exceptional with Internal Vehicle Devices (IVD) to speak with the Booking and Distribution Center, which fills in as a connection between the client and the vehicle, where solicitations are gotten and sent by means of IVD gadgets to the closest vehicle close by to arrive at the traveler inside a couple of moments.

The Center’s initial service was gone to by Waleed Al Sayegh, CEO of Sharjah Asset Management Company, Abdul Aziz Al Jarwan, Director of Sharjah Roads and Transport Authority (SRTA) for Transportation Affairs, Sheik Saud container Mohammed Al Qasimi, CEO of Osool Transportation Solutions; and Khalid Al-Kindi, Executive Director of Sharjah Taxi.

Other striking participants included Ibtisam Al Obaidly, Director of the Transport Systems Department at the SRTA, Suliman ALZaben, President of Hyundai and Genesis UAE, and Basil Assaf, Executive Director of Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence at Max Smart Systems, notwithstanding authorities of Sharjah Asset Management bunch organizations, accomplices, Sharjah Tax group, and neighborhood media delegates.