Chief Specialist- Transportation Policies

Job Purpose

• Lead development, evaluation and governance of transport-demand, tariff and exemption policies for the RTA, ensuring alignment with approved directions and provision of technical observations on received transport-policy studies.

Roles and Responsibilities

Strategy

• Develop and issue the comprehensive system, policies and procedures for regulating and managing transport demand in the Emirate of Dubai to create balance in the transport system.

• Define policies and programs to reduce transport demand volume, redistribute it temporally and spatially, and encourage sustainable and mass transport instead of private vehicles.

• Develop and maintain the databases and tools required to evaluate transport-demand policies and procedures and ensure their continuous update.

• Conduct strategic and detailed technical studies related to transport-demand policies to raise the efficiency of the roads and transport system and follow up on the implementation of approved outputs.

• Govern mass transportation tariffs, passenger-transportation tariffs and fees (mass transport, taxis, limousines, smart rentals and flexible mobility) and prepare studies to amend the values of related fees and tariffs.

• Study and evaluate policies and procedures related to exemptions from road and mass transport fares and prepare recommendations for approval.

Operations

• Review and provide technical observations on studies, legislations and plans related to transport-demand management policies received from external parties or from concerned institutions within the Authority.

• Coordinate with concerned RTA departments to circulate, explain and follow up on the application of approved transport-demand, tariff and exemption policies.

• Prepare periodic technical reports on the performance and effectiveness of applied transport demand and tariff policies, based on data from the approved tools and studies.

• Ensure that databases and evaluation tools contain complete, up-to-date classifications, parameters and assumptions needed for policy analysis.

• Document and file all studies, tariff proposals, exemption evaluations and technical observations for reference and audit.

Product/Process Improvement

• Improve and standardize study templates, evaluation methodologies and databases related to transport-demand, tariff and exemption policies to keep them aligned with approved practices.

• Identify recurring policy or implementation issues across entities and propose corrective or enhancement actions.

• Contribute to building the section’s technical knowledge base for transport-demand management and tariff governance.