UAE Business: Dubai RTA serves 37m users during Expo 2020 – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Dubai RTA serves 37m users during Expo 2020 – Gulf Digital News

The number of usages of the services of Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) during the period of Expo 2020 Dubai amounted to 37.3 million, marking 67% to the total usage of transport services at Expo.

The number of riders carried out by public transport modes (Dubai Metro, public buses), taxis and e-hail rides (Careem and Uber) reached 26.3 million, said Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of RTA.

He noted that RTA’s transit means served 37% of Expo visitors, and about 11.038 million motorists used RTA’s parking slots during Expo.

“From October 1st, 2021 to March 31st, 2022, the Dubai Metro service to Expo 2020 clocked at 8.203 million riders covering more than 5.717 million kilometres. Public buses (Expo Rider) constituted for 15.525 million riders covering more than 7.357 million kilometres. The bus service was run by four types of services: Expo Rider Inter-city had 1.096 million riders, Expo Rider Dubai had 1.414 million riders, Parking Shuttles to the three Gates (Opportunity, Mobility and Sustainability) made 10.2 m riders, and People Movers between gates had 2.814 million riders. Taxi and e-hail ride services had 2.584 million riders,” explained Al Tayer.

“RTA managed more than 29,000 parking slots at the site of Expo at