Roads & Transport Authority - News Details

His Excellency Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer, Director-General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), has received the Innovation Organization Maturity certificate bestowed on the RTA from the Global Innovation Management Institute (GIMI), Boston, USA. The award of this certificate is a gesture of appreciation of RTA’s contribution to innovation drive. 

As such, RTA has become the first Middle Eastern entity and the first transport entity in the world to obtain this prestigious certificate. 

Accepting the certificate from the team of Strategy and Corporate Governance Sector, Al Tayer expressed his delight with this certificate, which adds further glory to the impressive achievements of RTA in developing creative solutions to enhance the delivery of services and foster an environment conducive to creativity. 

“RTA is committed to implementing the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to make innovation an institutional practice in planning a sustainable future for the upcoming generations. Since RTA is keen on making innovation an institutional practice, it formed a standing committee for innovation. It tasked the Committee with developing plans, programmes and initiatives to realise the vision of our leaders to rank Dubai the Top Innovative City in the world. In 2014, RTA established a Research, Development and Innovation Section and subsequently transformed it into the Knowledge and Innovation Department,” noted Al Tayer. 

“RTA developed an innovation strategy together with a process for monitoring and analysing local and global future trends and assessing various scenarios. It also adopted innovative solutions to cope with the transport challenges encountered by the Emirate. In line with our efforts to make innovation a predominant feature of RTA projects, and with the support of our leaders, we managed to integrate innovation in the services we provide to clients to make them happier. 

“RTA is among the core supporters of innovation drive in Dubai and indeed the UAE in general. Obtaining this certificate is a testimony to the determined efforts to standardise innovation in operations and services. RTA continues to make persistent endeavours to rank among the top and most innovative government entities worldwide,” concluded Al Tayer.