{"id":7129,"date":"2018-05-02T07:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T07:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2018-05-02T07:12:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T07:12:19","slug":"rta-opens-registration-for-the-dubai-world-challenge-for-self-driving-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/rta-opens-registration-for-the-dubai-world-challenge-for-self-driving-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"RTA Opens Registration For The Dubai World Challenge For Self-Driving Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA)\u00a0in Dubai opens today, May 1st, 2018, the registration for the\u00a0Dubai World\u00a0Challenge for\u00a0Self-Driving Transport\u00a0through the website www.sdchallenge.com. HE Mattar\u00a0Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the\u00a0RTA, had previously unveiled the initiative in collaboration with Khalifa University and NewCities International Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Adel Shakeri, Director of Transportation Systems\u00a0 cum Head of the\u00a0Dubai WorldChallenge for Self-Driving Transport Committee, said, \u201cRegistration for the\u00a0Dubai World\u00a0Challenge for Self-Driving Transport opens today, May 1st 2018. Finalists will be announced in October 2018, and winners will be unveiled in October 2019. The total prize money of the \u2018Challenge\u2019 exceeds USD $5 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaunching the \u2018Challenge\u2019 is part of\u00a0RTA\u2019s efforts to support the leading role of Dubai in Self-Driving Transport and its commitment to realise the Government\u2019s vision for transforming 25% of total mobility trips in Dubai into driverless trips by 2030. This initiative will bring together prominent experts, specialists, policymakers, technology drivers, researchers and academicians. It will attempt to come up with the best ideas &amp; visions that serve the Dubai Government\u2019s drive, achieves\u00a0RTA\u2019s first strategic goal (Smart Dubai), and realise Dubai\u2019s initiative (Smart Dubai),\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport targets big companies, start-ups, local and international universities. About USD $3 million has been allocated to mega companies, USD $1.5m for start-ups, and USD $600,000 for universities and academic institutions (USD $300,000 each for local universities, and international universities). The Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport has become a key pillar of RTA\u2019s strategy and hence launching a host of such innovative initiatives can make driverless mobility a reality on ground,\u201d concluded Shakeri.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7130 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dxb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dxb.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dxb-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA)\u00a0in Dubai opens today, May 1st, 2018, the registration for the\u00a0Dubai World\u00a0Challenge for\u00a0Self-Driving Transport\u00a0through the website www.sdchallenge.com. HE Mattar\u00a0Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the\u00a0RTA, had previously unveiled the initiative in collaboration with Khalifa University and NewCities International Organisation. Adel Shakeri, Director of Transportation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7131,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions\/7131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}