In April's edition we explored the latest innovations in the field of "Road and Traffic Technology". Explore these Ten apps that originate from different countries, many of which coming from developing countries, such as an Anit-bribery app from India, a crowd-sourced map from Bangladesh. As we always try to have a Middle East focus, check out five innovations from the region. These

1. 10 things you should know about…
…Road and Travel Apps
April, 2014

2. The Social Impact Department at the Ministry of Information and
Communication Technology (ictQATAR) established Rassed, a
program that aims to study the effects of the Internet and
Information Communication Technologies (ICT) on society; and the
potential of emerging digital technologies.
We produce quarterly Digital Digest of recent market developments
and a monthly Top 10 on a particular theme.
This month we look at road and travel apps.
Read on for 10 examples of interesting innovations we
wanted to share with you….
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3. Masarak: Qatar’s traffic
monitoring and navigation app
Source: http://bit.ly/REL8HU
Hundreds of sensors
attached to lampposts
pick up signals
emitted by Bluetooth
devices inside passing
vehicles to provide
information about
traffic congestion.

4. Bey2ollak: A community-based
traffic information service
Source: http://bit.ly/1juCLWN
Bey2ollak, is a mobile app, using crowd-sourcing and
social interaction to exchange information about traffic.
1 million registered users
30,000 requests per minute
250k Facebook fans
119k twitter followers

5. Dhaka’s first bus map
was crowd-sourced
Source: http://kck.st/1juwWbL Image: http://bit.ly/1jqoZmx
Dhaka, the capital of
Bangladesh, has over 5
million bus users a day,
but no bus map.
Volunteers crowd-sourced
270 bus routes to
produce the city’s first
route-map.

6. Beliaa, a mobile mechanic
Source: http://bit.ly/1gN8OiC
Beliaa, is an Arabic
mobile app which
offers roadside
assistance by using
your GPS location to
find the nearest
breakdown center.

7. Salamtek:
Drivers Anti- Distraction App
Source: http://bit.ly/1i8uxRA
This app locks a cell
phone, when it detects
that a car is traveling
above a certain speed.
It also sends a message
to callers that the
phone’s user is driving.

8. The first “shake-a-taxi” app
Source: http://bit.ly/1h4Q5CK Image: http://bit.ly/1jZKbD9
When shaking your
phone, the installed app
uses GPS functionality to
look for - and contact– the
nearest available taxis.

9. Limiting traffic police bribes
Source: http://bit.ly/1gN9kgw Image: http://bit.ly/1pDzhbY
The Traffic Fines India app keeps users informed
about their traffic fines without having to be online.

10. Ma3Route, a Kenyan
solution to traffic congestion
Source: http://bit.ly/1h4QKUB
Using Twitter, Ma3Route sends subscribers traffic feeds on
specified routes to let them know what the traffic is like.

11. Touch and Travel:
towards paperless tickets
Source: http://bit.ly/1gN6Z5n
This app lets German
commuters book and pay for
railway and bus tickets online,
by showing a barcode to ticket
inspectors.

12. Ubisafe: Keep track of
your car by using your phone
Source: http://www.ubisafe.com/car
UbiSafe (mobile software + UbiSafe Box) turns
smartphones into a satellite-tracking device to locate
vehicles on a map in real time.

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