Press Releases
14 Mar 2018
Al Tayer honours winners of RTA Scientific Research Award
HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai, has honoured the winners of RTA Scientific Research Award 2017. The Award aims to spotlight talents of experienced employees and utilise them in leveraging RTA’s business processes and supporting its knowledge management efforts. The winning research will be published in several serials to share the benefits worldwide.
Attendees of the felicitation ceremony, which was held in Al Wasl Auditorium, included a host of RTA’s CEOs and directors as well as the Judges Panel of the Award.
Al Tayer honoured the winners of the Award. At the corporate level, the Public Transport Agency was the winner of the Best Agency Award, and its CEO Ahmed Bahrozyan accepted the Award. The Bus Department was the winner of the Best Department, and its Director Mohammed Al Ali collected the Award.
At the individual level, the winner was Amr Muslim, the runner-up was Haitham Abdul Raziq, and Basil Ibrahim Saad, Roland Yeo, and Mohammed Al Safadi shared the third place prize.
In the Special Merit category, Abdullah Al Bastaki won the Best Study in the Specialist Field Award, and Mohammed Yousef Al Mudharreb won the Best Study in the Supervisory Field. Younes Bu Kallal, and Kamel Adeer won the Motivational Awards.
Al Tayer also awarded the Judges Panel headed by Dr. Basim Mohammed Younes as well as members comprising Dr. Yasser Al-Sayyid Hawass, Dr. Khaled Hamad, and Dr. Mustafa Noor-Uddin Hassan.
Al Tayer was delighted with the success of RTA Scientific Research Award in encouraging employees to conduct scientific research and studies. “RTA is keen to nurture an environment encouraging employees to innovate and allocate the resources and tools needed to motivate them to think Out-of-the-Box and come up with creative solutions and test their viability. This drive is becoming increasingly relevant, especially after the endorsement of the 7-Year Corporate Research Plan carried out in partnership with leading global firms,” said Al Tayer.
“The first and foremost aim of the Scientific Research Award is to identify employees who have advanced scientific research skills and offer a chance to assess them. Accordingly, the excellent ones will be posted and tasked to support RTA’s efforts in research and development,” said Al Tayer