RTA Introduces Taxi-Sharing Pilot Service Between Dubai And Abu Dhabi

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has unveiled a new taxi-sharing pilot service. The service enables passengers to share rides between Ibn Battuta Centre in Dubai and Al Wahda Centre in Abu Dhabi. This pilot program will run for six months, and depending on its results, it might be expanded in other locations in the future.

The main goal of this project is to offer a quick, easy, and reasonably priced mode of transportation. Passengers will be able to pay the fare via bank cards or nol cards. The fare will be AED 132 per passenger when two riders share the taxi and AED 88 when three passengers travel together. Through this project, RTA also aims to reduce traffic congestion by promoting shared rides in a single taxi.

"The initiative would benefit passengers primarily by reducing costs by up to 75% when four passengers share a single taxi between the two emirates. In such cases, each passenger pays AED 66, sharing the cost rather than one passenger covering the full fare,” said Adel Shakri, Director of Planning and Business Development at the Public Transport Agency of Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority.