In order to support the public during the current health circumstances, the Integrated Transport Centre (ITC) of the Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) in cooperation with Department of Economic Development announced the launch of Taxi Delivery Service for Sales Outlets Initiative. As per the initiative, ITC will offer taxis to sales outlets in order to be used as home delivery services to maintain the public’s safety in the time that everyone is requested to stay home and avoid the risk of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Sales outlets may benefit from the service by delivering orders to the customers using taxis after registration by calling 600535353. Using Abu Dhabi Taxi Application, the outlet will be able to track the taxi driver on the map and determine the delivery time. In addition, all taxi vehicles are provided with CCTV which enables the monitoring of the taxis by ITC.
In order to ensure the safety of the public, taxi drivers were trained about the preventive and precautionary measures followed by ITC. Additionally, all drivers are required to wear face masks and gloves during the delivering of the orders and were asked not to contact the customers directly. That is in addition to sterilising all taxi vehicles regularly before and after using them.
This service was launched as part of ITC’s social responsibility to support the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. ITC is will study the possibility of officially implementing the service in the future in case it was successful.
