(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
Doha: Aimed at enhancing roads safety in the country by reducing traffic accidents, Qatar Roads Assessment Programme being conducted under the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) has been completed to the extent of 90%.
'Enhance Roads Safety through Qatar Roads Assessment Programme (Q_RAP) is now 90% complete, which aims to prepare appropriate engineering solutions to raise safety for all road users and contribute to reducing traffic accidents, the Ministry said in a tweet.
The project's key objectives, according to the Ministry's tweet, include conducting detailed surveys to assess road safety, knowing the star rating of road safety in line with best world practices and developing integrated systems and apps to ensure access to accurate high-quality data.
Preparing appropriate engineering solutions to raise safety level for all road users and contributing to reducing traffic accidents are other objectives of the project.
Under current stage of the programme, the authorities concerned are completing the star rating on the safety of roads and preparing and developing apps to identify the most dangerous areas and introducing efficient plans to improve them and raise safety levels. Coordination with bodies concerned in Qatar to take the necessary measures to improve safety level on road networks is also underway under the programme.
Earlier in February this year, the MoTC had shared that it was working on a project to conduct a field technical survey on road network assets covering 20,000 km of road lanes, bridges and tunnels.
By that time, the project had made remarkable advancement completing examination of 3,125km of local roads.
A multifunctional ROMDAS device had been mobilised to make 3D photography of road surface. The project was following international standard and Qatar Guideline for Maintenance Work. Most advanced system had been adopted to collect, analyse and upgrade data. The data was being recorded through the Geographical Information System (GIS), the Ministry had said in February in a tweet.
To increase road quality, the international roughness index has been put in place. The technical survey includes 20,000km road networks — road lanes, bridges and tunnels. Under the project integrated road, assets are also being recorded and evaluated like lampposts, signboards and traffic safety barricades, the MoTC had said in an earlier tweet. The main goal of the project is to support the National Development Strategy and Qatar National Vision 2030.
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