1. Transportation in DUBAI
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An Overview

2. Air Travel
 Emirates is the airline based in
the Emirate of Dubai.
 Based at Dubai International Airport it is the
largest airline in the Middle East, operating over
2,400 flights per week
 It is a subsidiary of The Emirates Group and is
wholly owned by the government of Dubai.
 Emirates operates a mixed fleet
of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft.
 The airline ranks amongst the top 10 carriers
worldwide in terms of revenue and passenger
kilometres, and has become the largest airline in
the Middle East in terms of revenue, fleet size,
and passengers carried as of 2007.
 Dubai Aviation Corporation trading as flydubai is
a low-cost airline with its head office and flight
operations in Terminal 2 of Dubai International
Airport.

3. Metro
Metro
Dubai became the first state to have metro railway
among GCC countries .The first train started exactly at
09:09:09 on 09-09-09.Dubai Metro is the world's
longest metro railway.
The different lines of Dubai Metro Railway
Dubai metro is divided into four lines:
 The Red Line is 52 Kms long which starts
from Rashidiya and ends on Jebel Ali
 The Green Line is 22.5 Kms in length and
starts from Al Qusais ends at Al Jedaff.
 The Blue Line is 47 kms long .This line starts
from Dubai Airport and ends on Jebel Ali Port.
 The Purple Line will be 49km but it will be
completed on 2012. This line also starts from Dubai
Airport and ends on Jebel Ali Port but this line
passes though Al Khail Road.

4. Water Taxi-ABRA
 An Abra (or Water taxis) is a small commuter
boat intended to travel across Dubai Creek.
 Tourist Abras powered by motors cost 100 dhs per
hour ,tourist abras running on oar power cost 30
dhs per hour.
 There are 149 Abras with 300 operators from
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iran on 3 routes
across Dubai Creek.
 In 2008, smart card system expected to be in
place - integrated with buses and parking, and the
Dubai Metro in 2009.
 An RTA press release 19 July 2010 said about
50,000 people per day use the abra service, and a
total of 17 million passengers used public marine
transport in 2009.

5. Road Travel
By Bus
 Dubai Public transport is a cheaper means of
travelling within the several districts in
Dubai.
 Public buses are clean and cheap, but
unfortunately not very comprehensive and
(on some routes) quite infrequent.
 The bus system is most useful for getting
between different areas of central Dubai.
By Taxi
 The easiest place to find them is at the taxi
queue at one of the malls or outside a hotel.
 At peak times (7-9AM & 4-7PM workdays,
and Friday evenings) demand far exceeds
supply.

6. Buses
 The Public Bus Transport system in the
Emirate of Dubai is run by the Roads &
Transport Authority (RTA).
 734 peak bus schedules are run on 79 bus
routes cutting over 264,260 kilometres on a
specimen working day.
 Around 310,000 passengers travel per day on
bus routes spanning an area of 4,110 square
kilometres of the Emirate of Dubai.
 The bus fleet is maintained at two high-tech
bus depots at Al Qusais and Al Awir.
 The infrastructure includes 9 well-attended bus
stations, over 1860 bus stops, 1302 wayside
passenger shelters and point timetables at 500
busy bus stops.

7. Taxi Dubai
 The public transport system in Dubai depends
much more on taxis than is common in other 2007
Dubai taxi statistics 1998
(August)
cities around the world.
Total number of taxis 2666 6500
 The Roads and Transport Authority Dubai
(RTA) is the regulator of taxi services. Number of drivers 2700 10,500
Number of trips per year 20 million 45 million
 Dubai Taxis are the largest taxi operator in
Dubai, by far, and they franchise out their Number of passengers per
39 million 90 million
taxis to one of several taxi service operators in year
Dubai.
Average passengers per day 1,06,000 2,70,000
 The pink taxis are intended for ladies only
Telephone reservations per
(and mothers with small children), and have 12,000
day
lady drivers.

8. Taxi Dubai
Types of Companies
Dubai Taxis franchises the operation of some taxis to other companies. The taxis are the same light
sandy beige color but have different colored roofs as follows.
Color Company
Green Al Arabia Taxi
White City Taxi
Blue Cars Taxi
Red Dubai Taxi
Orange Metro Taxi
Yellow National Taxi
Gold Hatta Taxi
Pink Ladies Taxi

9. Taxi Dubai
National Taxi Corporation
 National Taxi L.L.C, a franchise of Dubai Taxi
Agency (RTA) , was established in June 2000 and
was officially launched on 12 August 2000.
 With a fleet of 1424, National Taxi has a perfect
distribution channel and our cars can easily be
spotted and hailed in all areas of Dubai.
 National Taxi was the first taxi company in the
Middle East providing computer-generated
receipts to the customers, which indicate the car
number, fare, date, and time.
 National Taxi current set up holds a distinction
among the other taxi franchisees of being the only
franchisee company ready to operate a fleet
entirely large capacity or at least 3,000 vehicles.

10. Taxi Dubai
Dubai Taxi Corporation
 Dubai Taxi Corporation was founded on 20th
of May 1995 with 81 cars.
 Dubai Taxi Corporation’s Fleet is made up of
approximately 3,504 vehicles working 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week including public and
religious holidays.
 More than 7600 men and women taxi drivers
working in Dubai Taxi Corporation’s fleet
come from diverse nationalities of around 31
countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,
Nepal, Egypt and so on.

11. Taxi Dubai
Pink Taxi
 Ladies and Families Taxi is a dedicated service to
the special ones in our lives driven by female
drivers.
 This spacious taxi is exclusive to ladies and
families of all nationalities.
 The number of Pink Taxis have reached to 50 with
65 pink taxi drivers and expected to hire around 52
more.
 This service can be distinguished from other taxis by
the vehicles’ radiant pink roof top (the only DTC
service that is not red roof top).

12. Taxi Dubai
Company Hierarchy

13. Survey on Taxi Drivers
Research Methodology
Purpose of Research:
A general survey on the taxi drivers to get to know more about their life in Dubai.
Data collection:We interviewed 47 taxi drivers in and around dubai
Analysing and interpreting the data:
Reporting the data:

14. Survey on Taxi Drivers
Research Methodology
• The aim of the study was to provide a better understanding of the
Purpose of Research behaviour and lifestyle of Taxi drivers of Dubai by the use of
qualitative research methods.
• The data collection was done through in depth interviews conducted
Data collection with a wide spectrum of taxi drivers .
• A well formatted questionnaire was used for the data collection
Analyzing and
interpreting the data
Reporting the data

15. Survey on Taxi Drivers
Research Findings (1/4)
14%
7%
14% Nationality wise
64% Distribution Among Drivers
8%
Pakistan India Bangladesh Others 14%
43%
35%
Age wise Distribution
among Drivers
21 to 30 31 to 40 41 to 50 51 to 60

16. Survey on Taxi Drivers
Research Findings (2/4)
Yes 56%
No 42%
Willingness To Return
Can't Say 2%
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
17
48
Experience wise 35
Distribution among Drivers
1 to 5 5 to 10 Above 10

17. Survey on Taxi Drivers
Research Findings (3/4)
 Information revealed about taxi driver’s
earning shows that the range lies between
3500 AED to 5000 AED.
 The earnings are of commission basis.
 Another interesting finding is the number
of members they support.
 Drivers from Pakistan and Bangladesh
support more family members around 15-
20 on average whereas those from India
support 5.
 The monthly expenses are around 1000
AED excluding accommodation .

18. Study on DTC Taxi Drivers
Research Findings (4/4)
 Reason for most of the drivers to come to
Dubai is availability of high paid jobs as
compared to their native countries.
 The willingness to return to their native
countries also follows a pattern that is in
accordance to the age and experience of
work.
 While the young joinees are more eager to
stay and work the willingness to work and
stay declines with age.
 Most of them regarded the Dubai traffic laws
to be more strict than their own country’s.
 The most well behaved passengers were the
Europeans while the Saudis came at the
bottom of the list.

19. Road Traffic Safety
SPEEDING
MOBILE PHONES
 Over the last 10 years more than 2134 were killed and
around 23082 injured in road traffic crashes in Dubai.
SEATBELTS
 The economic impact of road crashes in Dubai for
2007 was estimated at AED 300 million.
 The Road and Transport authority has the objective of SAFE DISTANCE
reducing the road deaths and transport injuries by 40%
by 2015.
 Key factors in achieving the objective are improved
FATIGUE
road behaviors and acceptance of engineering and
enforcement initiatives that increase road safety.
RED SIGNALS

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