The Integrated Transport Center prepares a safe environment for Abu Dhabi's students in the upcoming academic year through enhanced infrastructure projects and awareness campaigns.

Abu Dhabi has announced the Integrated Transport Center (ITC), under the Department of Municipalities and Transport, is fully prepared for the new academic year. This readiness is part of ongoing efforts to provide a safe transportation environment for school students. The center's plan aims to ensure a secure daily journey for students to and from schools and smooth traffic flow around school areas for all road users, including pedestrians, school bus riders, public transport users, and private vehicles. The strategy focuses on two main elements: educating students on traffic safety rules and enhancing infrastructure surrounding schools. These measures are intended to uphold the highest standards of safety and mobility flexibility as the school year commences. This initiative is in collaboration with strategic partners including school administrations and Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters.
Awareness Campaigns
The center has completed several awareness campaigns during the last academic year involving numerous schools in Abu Dhabi. These initiatives concentrated on teaching students about traffic safety when using school buses and crossing roads near schools, engaging over 900 students. As the new academic year 2025-2026 begins, the ITC plans to resume these campaigns across more schools using entertaining educational technologies and interactive platforms tailored for various age groups, aiming to impart road safety knowledge in an engaging manner that solidifies student understanding.
In its endeavor to bolster transportation infrastructure supporting school transport in Abu Dhabi, ITC conducted studies and devised development plans for more than 60 schools. This involved identifying transportation challenges through direct engagement with school administrations and conducting field visits and surveys. Consequently, tailor-made solutions were crafted for each institution, increasing dedicated parking spaces for buses and private vehicles while improving traffic flow around schools-an effort towards enhancing road safety standards.
Inspection Tours
The ITC also implements a range of measures aimed at bolstering safety within Abu Dhabi's school transport sector. Routine inspection tours ensure the readiness of school buses alongside organizing training workshops focused on operators', drivers', supervisors', and coordinators' adherence to security guidelines. Starting this academic year, field inspection teams will be stationed at high-traffic areas around schools to ease congestion during peak times additionally updating bus specifications with new security features such as additional 'stop' signs on larger buses seating more than 40 passengers.
As part of its regulatory role over Abu Dhabi’s school transport sector, ITC continues developing its oversight via "Salama," an intelligent system integral to unified management of school transportation services. Efforts include workshops training movement coordinators within schools alongside operators based in Abu Dhabi City Al Ain Region; Al Dhafra Area involves significant input into running orderly secure systems.
'Salama' Operators
The latest statistics from Salama reveal there are currently 222 registered operators managing 9,425 buses led by 9,379 drivers along with assistance from 11,136 supervisors serving approximately 690 schools under Salama's coverage ensuring safe travel impacting positively reaching out involving over quarter-million student count beneficiaries commuting daily enhanced importantly possessing parental access comfort via their app downloaded beyond an impressive milestone figure surpassing approx eighty-two thousand noted instances.