{"id":22267,"date":"2019-09-04T16:20:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=22267"},"modified":"2019-09-04T16:20:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:20:41","slug":"rtas-tech-taxi-provides-free-wifi-digital-services-to-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/rtas-tech-taxi-provides-free-wifi-digital-services-to-riders\/","title":{"rendered":"RTA&#8217;s &#8216;Tech Taxi&#8217; Provides Free WiFi, Digital Services To Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dubai\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/uae\/en\/company\/Roads__Transport_Authority-1003621\/\">Roads and Transport Authority (RTA)<\/a>\u00a0has started the implementation of \u2018Tech Taxi\u2019 initiative to drive the digitisation of taxi services in Dubai. It involves providing free WiFi internet in Dubai taxis and a package of digital services to taxi riders. The digital services supports the\u00a0<a class=\"_magnetEntNameitent_191-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/uae\/en\/in-the-news\/Smart\/119431\/\">smart<\/a>\u00a0city drive, which recently saw the launch of the e-hailing taxi service \u2018Hala\u2019 in conjunction with Careem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe initiative highlights\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/uae\/en\/company\/Roads__Transport_Authority-1003621\/\">RTA<\/a>\u2019s efforts to rank Dubai the smartest city worldwide. \u2018Tech Taxi\u2019 initiative provides free WiFi in all taxis enabling riders to connect to the service via WiFi UAE network using their smartphones,\u201d said Khaled Al Awadi, Director of Transportation Systems at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/uae\/en\/company\/Roads__Transport_Authority-1003621\/\">RTA<\/a>\u2019s Public Transport Agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cOnce connected, the rider can log-on to (\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxiconnect.ae\/\">www.taxiconnect.ae<\/a>\u00a0) to access an array of digital services via options enabling communication with the driver using instant interpretation of the passenger\u2019s language to the driver\u2019s selected language displayed on the meter screen.<\/p>\n<p>Tech Taxi initiative also enables the rider to track the path of the journey and share the map with his\/her relatives or associates. An option briefs riders on the current market exchange rates for converting various currencies to UAE dirhams. The rider can click another option to rate the performance of the driver, and capture the taxi meter screen on his or her phone. Another icon was designed to measure the rider\u2019s satisfaction\/happiness with the service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis initiative is the first of its kind worldwide. It offers a range of consolidated digital services under one link. It epitomises the keenness of Dubai Government to realize the Smart City initiative as well as several strategic goals of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/uae\/en\/company\/Roads__Transport_Authority-1003621\/\">RTA<\/a>\u00a0namely: Smart Dubai, People Happiness and Advance RTA,\u201d concluded Al Awadi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai\u2019s\u00a0Roads and Transport Authority (RTA)\u00a0has started the implementation of \u2018Tech Taxi\u2019 initiative to drive the digitisation of taxi services in Dubai. It involves providing free WiFi internet in Dubai taxis and a package of digital services to taxi riders. The digital services supports the\u00a0smart\u00a0city drive, which recently saw the launch of the e-hailing taxi service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22269,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions\/22269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}