Dubai Metro Radiates Culture, Art and History to the World Dubai the World's Smartest City with 100 Initiatives, 1000 Services
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The Official Monthly Magazine of Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority Issue No. 70 April 2014 With its museum-themed stations.. Dubai Metro radiates culture, art and history to the world Dubai the world's smartest city with 100 initiatives, 1000 services THE SMART CITY THE initiative of transforming Dubai into a smart city, which was launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, supervised and followed up by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, epitomizes the aspiration of our wise leadership to ensure the welfare and happiness of our people by providing world-class services, rendering Dubai a city par excellence worldwide. The Smart City envisioned by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the city that focuses on catering to the convenience and welfare of residents, and offering highly efficient services via state-of-the-art technologies. The smart mobility is one of the key pillars of smart cities, and from this standpoint, the RTA has set both the welfare & smooth living in Dubai as a top priority during projects planning & implementation phases, and will capitalize on smart technologies to provide services to customers. The RTA has future master plans for setting up technological traffic & transport systems, establishing a unified control center for all means of transport, and providing more than 200 smart phones services by the end of 2015. The RTA is currently offering a wide range of smart services covering various areas including a Centralized Traffic Lights Control System, SMS parking payment service, and the Dynamic Navigation System that provides motorists with information about road conditions to help them avoid traffic congestions. In the transport sector, we have the Dubai Metro, which has entered the Guinness World Records in 2012 as the longest driverless metro network worldwide, automated system for tracking & managing bus movement, routes and timetables and a Unified Fare Collection System (Nol), and the Electronic Journey Planner (Wojhati) which enables customers to plan their daily travels in advance. The RTA has also installed 620 screens in metro and bus stations to provide passengers with real-time arrival information of trains and buses, besides uploading public transport data on Google Maps, rendering Dubai the first city in the Middle East and North Africa to activate this service. It has also introduced the Smart Taxi App, the first of its kind in the region enabling taxi users to book taxicabs and track their movement in real-time via their smart-phones. The Smart Taxis are fitted with electronic screens that provide a host of services to riders including flights inquiry. Finally, we pledge to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, that we will spare no efforts to realize the vision of HH for the happiness of people, and to work in road conditions team spirit to make Dubai road conditions the smartest city in roads and transport systems worldwide. Mattar Al Tayer Chairman of the Board and Executive Director Cover The 100 initiatives and 1000 services render Dubai as the 14 world`s smartest city Cover Mohammed bin Rashid issues directives to convert metro 08 stations into museums, cultural, artistic and historical platforms. Issue NO. 70 April 2014 5 GENERAL SUPERVISOR Aysha AL Busmait EDITOR IN CHIEF AlMoatasem Belah Mohammed Our News MANAGING DIRECTOR Mohammed Al Munji 20 Al Tayer showcases RTAs experience, role of TECHNICAL SUPERVISION infrastructure in prompting comprehensive Abou Baker Eltoum development at Jeddah Economic Forum EDITING MANAGER Fiona Chantelle Magdy Abu Zeed ADMIN COORDINATOR Afaf Al Fayyad PHOTOGRAPHY Syed Zaheer Haidar DESIGN & Our Projects MARKETING 24 Blue-waters Island and the International City Projects endorsed Art Director 26 Jumeirah Corniche Project to be developed Said Mansour at a cost of AED 100 million CONTACT US 28 Al Jaddaf, Creek Metro Stations on the P.O.Box: 118899 Dubai,U.A.E Green Line opened Tel: +971 4 2903989 Fax: +971 4 2903933 29 RTA awards AED104m contract to construct Email: [email protected] internal roads at Muhaisna 2 www.rta.ae 6 CONTENTS Numbers 30 440 million passengers used mass transit modes in Dubai in 2013 Achievements 32 RTA is the first public entity in Dubai to obtain ISO Energy Management System Certification. Gulf Traffic Safety 2013, 33 Raising Pedestrian Safety Rates Reward Services 34 Smart system to identify paid parking zone codes 35 Marine transit services beefed up, Dubai Ferry service timetable revised Reciprocal Ads Initiative Al Masar magazine Editorial Board offers the Reciprocal Ads initiative whereby a space for an advert is allocated to strategic partners and other government entities against allocating the same space in the magazine of the beneficial entity during the same month for the benefit of the RTA. Issue NO. 70 April 2014 7 Cover Story ---- ----- Al Masar – Mohammed Al Munji ------ --------- Mohammed directs to transform Dubai Metro stations into museums UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum gave his directions to transform Dubai Metro stations into art museums displaying artworks and creations from different themes and cultures. Cover Story This first of its kind initiative implementation stages. The His Highness said: “We want to aims to make arts and creativity presentation was attended also reach everyone through arts. We accessible to all segments of the attended by Dubai Crown Prince want creativity to reach every society and to provide Dubai Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed individual in the society. We want Metro passengers with a unique bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Dubai to inspire and communicate with and entertaining experience. It Deputy Ruler Sheikh Maktoum bin every employee on his way to also aims to enhance the UAE’s Mohammed bin Rashid. work, every student on his way international position in general Sheikh Mohammed also to pursuing education and every and Dubai’s in particular as a vital directed that the project be tourist visiting Dubai.” supporter for arts and artists. completed within 12 months “We want to transfer Dubai Sheikh Mohammed’s and to synchronize the launch Metro stations to museums directive came with the commencement of “Art accompanying passengers to all during a briefing Dubai 2015”. destinations.” on Dubai Metro His Highness also said that, “The Museum project U.A.E. has been playing a vital role and its different in supporting arts in the Arab 10 region and in the world for years. the cultural and artistic aspects of The U.A.E. provides a cultural life in Dubai,” Sheikh Mohammed bridge that links the east and the also added. west. Art is a universal language With more than 137 million that has the power to unite visitors in 2013 and an average humanity and bring people from of 500 thousand visitors a different languages, nationalities day, Dubai Metro Museum and cultures together. It removes initiative aims to create an barriers that seems to separate artistic environment with them from one another.” a wide reach to inspire “We will continue to create creativity and innovation. motivational environments to Phase one of the project support arts and culture and will include transforming highlight the creative and artistic four vital metro stations into aspects of Dubai. Our purpose is to art museums. Each of the lead a creative renaissance for all museums will have a specific Issue NO. 70 April 2014 11 Cover Story theme that highlights a specific development phases over 1400 aspect of arts or cultures. The years. Manuscripts, ceramics interior and exterior designs of the and jewelry will be some of the museums will reflect their themes. items on display to highlight the Islamic arts and Arabic Calligraphy art and cultural aspects of the Museum, Inventions Museum, times they represent. Calligraphy Contemporary Art Museum paintings will also be on display to and Visual Art Museum will give visitors a taste of the Arabic be launched during phase calligraphy art and its development one. through the different ages. The Islamic art and Arabic Inventions Museum will offer Calligraphy Museum the visitors from different ages a will include a collection unique and interactive educational of artworks inspired by experience that illustrates the Islamic art and its the most important human 12 inventions in different fields models, and many other items with state-of-the-art technology such as engineering, medicine, that reflect the expressive and and smart and interactive mobile astronomy, mathematics, intellectual styles which have been applications in line with Smart Dubai geography and many other fields. created by contemporary artists initiative that was launched lately It will also include the contribution from different parts of the world. by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed of the most important inventors Visual Art Museum will highlight bin Rashid Al Maktoum to transform in human history from all ages the contemporary visual art scene Dubai into the smartest city in the including the very age we live in. through the screening of movies world. Dubai Metro Museum will The Contemporary Art Museum will and documentaries, and displaying be an educational and a cultural offer a unique and comprehensive multimedia content of cultural opportunity on different art related view on modern art through and artistic essence. The visual art topics. It will encourage people a collection which reflects the museum will give its visitors the to interact with the displayed sense of contemporary creative opportunity to share their work artworks. It will also contribute to expression. It will have paintings, and have it on display as well. increasing awareness levels of the designs, graphic illustrations, These museums will be provided importance of art in everyday life.