The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority issued 67,341 permits to practice the passenger transport profession during the year 2023, including 6,883 permits for school transport drivers, 20,483 permits for limousine drivers, and 30,215 permits for taxi drivers, in addition to 6,813 permits for school transport supervisors. And 2,947 permits for the (Naqel) service, which is concerned with transporting passengers from other emirates to the Emirate of Dubai.
The issuance of permits to practice the profession achieved a growth rate of about 25% in 2023, compared to 2022, and an increase of 69% over 2021.
The Director of the Driver Affairs Department at the Public Transport Corporation at the Authority, Sultan Al-Akraf, said, “The issuance of 67,341 permits to practice the profession of transporting passengers during the year 2023, including permits for school transport supervisors, came to meet the demand and the steady growth in services for training, qualifying and permitting passenger transport drivers from… Before franchise companies, limousines and school transportation.
Al-Akraf added: “We were able to expand the training and qualification processes through cooperation and accreditation and qualification of new institutes such as the Belhasa Institute, the Emirates Transport Institute, and the Eco-Drive Institute to train and qualify drivers for the passenger transport sector in the emirate, to keep pace with the rising growth in requests from passenger transport sector companies in the emirate, and the authority is fully supervised. Direct training and qualification of drivers according to the training course that was prepared and approved in coordination with the relevant authorities, and the education institutes accredited by the Authority are responsible for training and qualifying drivers to work in this vital sector.
Al-Akraf explained that passenger transport drivers and school transport supervisors are being trained and qualified in various foundational, supplementary and rehabilitation courses, which are internationally accredited and approved by international institutions specialized in urban transport, such as the British Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). .
2024-01-24 22:09:48
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