Roads General Authority Adopts Advanced Digital Mobile Mapping System

The Roads General Authority (RGA) has begun using advanced digital mobile mapping system to enhance road safety by collecting comprehensive data on roads and their surroundings. This initiative aligns with the authority’s strategy to adopt cutting-edge technologies and promote innovation in the road sector.
 The RGA explained that the new equipment can scan, process, and evaluate non-pavement elements while in motion, including guidance and regulatory signs, protective barriers, electrical power supply stations, kilometer markers, and lighting poles.
 This modern technology improves the efficiency of planning and executing maintenance and repair work, while also identifying and addressing potential risks, such as damaged signs or broken barriers. It enables rapid and highly accurate scanning of extensive road networks.
 The authority reaffirmed its commitment to expanding the use of advanced technologies to support its strategic goals of enhancing safety and quality in the road sector. The initiative aims to raise the Kingdom’s road quality index to sixth place globally and reduce road fatalities to fewer than five per 100,000 people by 2030.