Dubai RTA launches virtual assistant for employees

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has fully automated all administrative services to employees comprising of 152 main services and 127 subsidiary services. It also used the artificial intelligence technology in launching a virtual assistant to respond to the needs and inquiries of employees. Such a step, which is part of RTA’s Digitisation Plan, contributes to Dubai Paperless Strategy 2021 and supports the efforts of fighting Covid-19.
“The automated system has processed 23,873 requests from inception in 2018 till the second quarter of 2020. The system is available on RTA’s Intranet internal page and MyRTA app as well,” said Nabeel Al Ali, Director of Administrative Services, Corporate Administrative Support Services Sector, RTA.’

The AI technology has helped RTA launch a virtual assistant to respond to employee inquiries in both Arabic and English languages. It helps with 73 information services relating to administrative services or procedures for fighting Covid-19. The assistant has 132 programmed answers to potential questions from employees in various fields.