UAE | Traffic and Transport
RTA unveils new addressing system
It can be memorised easily, says official.
- Staff Report
- Published: 23:53 August 29, 2008
Dubai: The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) recently unveiled the new Addressing and Directional Signs System in Dubai, which adopts building numbers, and road and zone names as a base rather than district names.
The overall objective of the new system is to ease the movement of motorists and road users and give them easy access to their destinations, as inspired by the theme of the project "Easy Address, Smooth Access".
This project, which was initiated by the RTA, involves a number of service providers in the emirate.
The project committee was formed and it was chaired by engineer Maitha Bin Udai, CEO of RTA Traffic and Roads Agency. It included the Director of Traffic Department at the Agency as Deputy Chairperson, relevant RTA departmental directors and engineers as members, in addition to representatives from Dubai Municipality, General Headquarters of Dubai Police, General Directorate of Civil Defence, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Unified Ambulance Centre, and Emirates Post Holding Group.
Maitha described the new system as clear, concise, simple and easily memorised. It adopts building numbers, road and zones names, displayed on directional signs, rather than district names used in the previous system which was mainly based on city landmarks and road numbers.
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