The Rail Automated System (RAS) Project was started by Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and Keolis-MHI (operator of Dubai Metro and Tram) to test a paperless initiative relying on cutting-edge technology. This technology is intended to improve paperless transactions, which RTA is steadily working to ensure in support of the UAE’s Fourth Industrial Revolution Strategy 2017, which aims to promote the UAE as a global center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Through close collaboration between RTA’s Rail Agency and Keolis MHI, the scope of work for this initiative was mapped out to ensure its success, and a total of 11 business modules were identified as having the greatest need for digitisation, including Permit to Work which allow access to large-scale work and activities to happen on the Metro/Tram, Dubai Metro Operation Control Centre, Dubai Tram Operation Control Centre and Environment – Management of Power/Energy/Waste, said the statement from RTA.
The initiative is compatible with RTA’s objective of expanding and improving its level of digitisation and sustainability in rail operations, it stated.
It ushers a migration from manual paper transactions into a fully digitised platform to transform the processes, save paper, eliminate printer dependency and most importantly bring the efficiency necessary to accomplish various tasks, besides saving expenditure, it added.
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