Dubai taxis carry one billion riders in 25 years

Dubai taxis have carried more than one billion riders in 682 million journeys since the start of operations in 1995 to December 2019. Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority, RTA, said that the taxi fleet recorded an exponential growth from 81 to 5201 vehicles. The number of drivers increased from 886 to 11500 drivers while the number of staff jumped from 23 to 1131...