Aimed at improving traffic safety and minimizing expenditures, Muscat Municipality vehicle tracking system almost fully employed
Significant reduction in kilometers driven
(294) heavy and (109) light vehicles covered in the third phase
The system allows thorough fleet movement management and ensures better driver assessment
Anisa al Oufi
The vehicle tracking system that Muscat Municipality has installed offered great results for Muscat Municipality. The system which can monitor vehicles exact location, their destination and time duration relies on a GPRS network interface which can transmit such details immediately to the monitoring specialists.
Since its first inauguration in 2014, the system has saved about 800 thousands of kilometers, and the number of driven kilometers continue to decline year after year.
The system has also guaranteed a lower car accidents in all vehicles equipped with this system, and confirmed by the data registered in the records of the Directorate General of Transport for the years (2014-2015-2016-2017 - up to September 2018) as shown by the graph below, the percentage decrease in the number of accidents annual for this vehicle:-