Dubai\u2019s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has started to run real-time\nupdates of bus timetables on Google Maps in collaboration with Google Inc. As\nsuch, Dubai has become the first city in the Middle East to use open data in\npublic transport at par with 100 smart cities across the globe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLinking and providing instant updates of bus\nschedules on Google Platform will help public transport riders and keep them\ninformed of bus timetables, especially in the event of an anticipated early\ndeparture or late arrival. Such updates will enable them to better plan their\njourneys and minimise potential complaints from changes in timetables for\nunavoidable reasons,\u201d said Khaled Al Awadi, Director of Transportation Systems\nat RTA\u2019s Public Transport Agency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPreviously, Google Maps used to display fixed RTA\nbus timetables without any updates, which might disrupt the journeys of bus\nriders. The new initiative aims to overcome delays or early arrival of buses for\nemergency factors thanks to instant updates now provided. Accordingly, riders\nwill be aware of their revised journey times. Real-time updates are run using GTFS-RT\nsystem (General Transit Feed Specification – Realtime).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGoogle Maps are commonly used and are extremely\npopular worldwide. The initiative is in line with our leaders’ efforts to cater\nto the needs of Dubai residents, especially riders of public transport; the\nbackbone of people mobility in Dubai. It serves many other strategic goals of\nRTA such as \u2018Smart Dubai,\u2019 \u2018People Happiness\u2019 and \u2018Advance RTA,\u2019 he concluded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dubai\u2019s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has started to run real-time updates of bus timetables on Google Maps in collaboration with Google Inc. As such, Dubai has become the first city in the Middle East to use open data in public transport at par with 100 smart cities across the globe. \u201cLinking and providing instant …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17571,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568\/revisions\/17571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}