The Land Transport Sector is mainly focused on five key pillars:

• Assistant Undersecretary’s Office
• Land Transport Planning Dept.
• Land Transport Licensing Dept.
• Road Affairs Dept.
• Public Transport Affairs Dept.

Office of Assistant Undersecretary of Land Transport

Office of Assistant Undersecretary of Land Transport is responsible for:

• Organizing the files, correspondence, and papers related to the Assistant Undersecretary’s Office,
• Receiving correspondence coming to the Assistant Undersecretary’s Office, preparing them to be shown to the Office, and sharing them with the concerned entities as per Office directives,
• Preparing memos and correspondence assigned to the Office by the Assistant Undersecretary,
• Contacting entities to obtain information the Assistant Undersecretary requests,
• Notifying the concerned entities of the Assistant Undersecretary’s approvals and directives,
• monitoring their implementation, and updating them of the progress,
• Receiving relevant complaints and showing them to the Assistant Undersecretary, and putting into effect the decisions taken thereon,
• Any other tasks assigned to the Office.

Land Transport Planning

Land Transport Planning Dept. is responsible for:

• Laying out the land transportation planning general policy considering the country’s general policies,
• Proposing and developing laws relative to land transportation planning considering the country’s general policies, in coordination with the concerned entities,
• Developing and updating the comprehensive, strategic, and integrated studies and plans of land transportation, including land transportation networks with all modes, in coordination with the relevant entities,
• Planning land transportation networks with all its modes, including paved and unpaved roads, railroads, pedestrian and bicycle crossings and paths, specifying their right-of-way, according to the deliverables of the comprehensive transportation plan,
• Identifying land transportation networks’ priorities and programs with all its modes, according to the deliverables of the comprehensive transportation plan and in coordination with the relevant entities,
• Adopting traffic impact studies with relation to the developmental projects relative to road networks, in coordination with the relevant entities,
• Developing and updating land transportation model with its various modes according to approved land uses and land transportation networks, in coordination with the relevant entities,
• Preparing and approving initial engineering designs for land transportation networks, specifying urban plots’ entrances and exits, in coordination with the relevant entities,
• Preparing and updating technical and engineering references and standards necessary for planning and designing land transportation networks with all its modes, in coordination with the relevant entities,
• Studying and expressing technical views on draft international agreements relative to land transportation.

Land Transport Licensing

Land Transport Licensing Dept. is responsible for:

• Establishing the conditions and controls for issuing licenses, technical performance standards, and the rules and decisions governing the land transportation services with all its modes, and ensuring compliance to them,
• Establishing the conditions and controls for issuing licenses, technical performance standards, and the rules and decisions governing the licensing and operating the activities of transporting hazardous materials, and ensuring compliance to them,
• Establishing standards and conditions of land transportation services’ quality of performance, and ensuring compliance to them,
• Suggesting fees of land transportation services with all its modes,
• Receiving, reviewing, and releasing licenses of companies that provide land transportation services with all its modes,
• Monitoring the performance of entities and companies licensed for land transportation with all its modes,
• Enforcing the provisions of the laws and legislations regulating land transportation services with all its modes, in coordination with the relevant entities,
• Proposing and developing regulatory legislations related to land transportation licensing activities with all its modes and facilities, considering the general policy of the country and in coordination with the entities concerned,
• Examining and expressing opinions on draft international agreements relative to regulating and licensing of land transportation activities and improving service quality.

Land Transport Performance Quality

• Setting and developing technical performance standards of land and railway transport
• Monitoring the performance of licensed operators;
• Ensuring compliance with general quality standards, requirements and controls of service performance
• Examining all types of land transportations to ensure their safety.

Road Affairs

Road Affairs Dept. is responsible for:

• Proposing and developing policies and strategies relative to operating and maintaining road networks in coordination with relevant entities,
• Preparing plans and programs on operating and maintaining road networks and identifying their priorities in coordination with the entities concerned,
• Establishing controls and specifications relative to road networks operation and maintenance in coordination with the entities concerned, and ensuring they are being followed,
• Ensuring the implementation of the roads strategic plan and its quality as per the approved designs and programs, in coordination with the concerned administrative units in the Ministry,
• Taking road assets from the Public Works Authority when contractor is done with execution and the maintenance period ends as per the contract signed for them, and following up on maintenance works on road projects,
• Maintaining road assets and their associated facilities, and taking all necessary actions in this regard,
• Preparing studies on traffic movement and congestions in coordination with relevant entities,
• Creating information and databases on roads and traffic safety in coordination with the entities concerned,
• Preparing studies and analyzing data on road accidents, identifying their causes, and suggesting appropriate solutions,
• Suggesting road safety measures in coordination with the concerned administrative units in the Ministry,
• Preparing and updating the references relating to technical specifications and standards necessary for operating and maintaining road networks and for road safety, in coordination with relevant entities,
• Examining and expressing views on regional and international draft agreements relative to roads and traffic safety.       

Public Transport Affairs

Public Transport Affairs Dept. is responsible for:

• Preparing studies focused on developing public transportation with all its modes, and suggesting and developing necessary plans, policies, strategies, and regulations, in coordination with the concerned administrative units in the Ministry,
• Preparing studies necessary for establishing standards and controls of issuing licenses, performance, rules, and decisions regulating public transportation services and activities with all its modes,
• Putting standards and requirements on evaluating and selecting public transportation operators with all its modes and ensuring compliance, high performance, and quality by operators,
• Developing a public transportation system, with all its modes, that is safe, ecofriendly and of high quality, taking into consideration the environmental standards issued by the concerned entities, in coordination with the concerned administrative units in the Ministry,
• Preparing and approving public transportation’s operational plans, with all its modes, as per the Transportation Master Plan’s deliverables and in accordance with public transportation’s strategy and priorities,
• Developing and managing the integrated automated fare collection and ticketing system for public transport with all its modes,
• Approving paths and timetables for organizing and operating public transport with all its modes,
• Ensuring that licensed entities comply with public transport’s licensing controls and standards with all its modes,
• Preparing and updating the technical references and standards necessary for planning the public transport’s paths and networks, with all its modes, in coordination with the relevant entities,

• Examining and expressing views on regional and international draft agreements relative to public transport.

   

   

  The Land Transport Sector offers a wide range of services for companies and individuals.