Commercial road transport operators have been urged by the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) to completely support and collaborate with the organization in order to effectively operationalize road transport service providers’ electronic registration, or “e-registration,” by the end of next month.
“It is commendable that some of the transport service providers have already taken the initiative to automate their systems ahead of the authority’s digitalization exercise,” said David Osafo Adonteng, acting director-general of the NRSA, during a meeting with 47 commercial road transport operators in the nation.
The goal of last Thursday’s engagement in Accra was to inform the transport service providers about the exercise, its components, and its advantages for both the industry and the broader economy.
Launched last month, the TransportGhana boasts eight features: electronic ticketing and cashless systems; e-registration and licensing of transport operations; departure control; and roadside assistance, commonly referred to as the i-locator.
The remaining ones include road safety watch, citizen reporting, e-vehicle tracking, e-passenger manifest, and e-driver training monitoring.
In addition to aiming to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the nation’s commercial road transport services, the project is anticipated to contribute to a minimum 50% reduction in road traffic fatalities by 2030.
As part of its mission to sanitize the road transportation industry, the NRSA launched the TransportGhana project last month. This endeavor is a component of that strategy.
The ability to, among other things, initiate an e-registration process to unite all road transport service providers through the TransportGhana project is mandated by the National Road Safety Regulation L.I. 2468 of 2022.
Based on the automation and digitalization of commercial road transport, TransportGhana will replace the manual commercial road transport services with technological ones.
The project, according to the interim director-general of the NRSA, is in line with the nation’s policy of digitizing all facets of the national economy, including road safety management.
The Ghana Road Transport Coordinating Council (GRTCC), the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), the Progressive Transport Owners Association (PROTOA), the Intercity STC, and Metro Mass Transit Limited were among the operators present at the conference.
