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Dubai Launches AI System To Reduce Traffic Congestion

The platform will also predict when roads and bridges need to be maintained and can be used for crowd management, administration, and smart services.

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dubai launches ai system to reduce traffic congestion

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced the launch of an AI and data science-based platform that will improve various aspects of the country’s transportation network, from road maintenance to public transit planning.

The new platform, developed in tandem with top global firms, will use machine learning to examine traffic data, spot trends, and make predictions to aid in the design of more effective road networks and alleviate traffic congestion.

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In addition to reducing traffic congestion, the AI platform will also enable preventative maintenance for roads and bridges, plus crowd management and over 100 further use cases as part of RTA’s AI project roadmap. The system will also allow the Roads and Transport Authority to integrate AI into websites and digital apps.

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Visa’s Return To Syria Starts With A Test And A Bank In Lebanon

Foreign visitors will be the first users to benefit, but whether Syria’s own banks and cardholders follow is still an open question.

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Visa is returning to Syria. Its first live international card transaction in the country was a test rather than a launch, and the milestone event ran through a Lebanese bank.

The acquirer (the bank on the merchant’s side of a card payment) was Fransabank Lebanon, with Paymera as the other named partner. Nadim Moujaes, who heads a Fransabank Group subsidiary, describes the test as both the culmination of “longstanding efforts to link Syria back to international payment networks” and “the first step in a larger path”.

“We are excited to have successfully tested live transactions today as we plan to enable international visitors to use their Visa cards while in Syria,” says Leila Serhan, Visa’s senior vice president and group country manager for the North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. Although a significant first step, that plan doesn’t come with a hard date for when a visitor’s card will work normally.

Mohammed Safwat Raslan, governor of the Central Bank of Syria, says the test paves the way for international card acceptance in Syria and that maintaining strong compliance, risk management and operational controls will remain essential. Serhan likewise stresses that Visa has worked within applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements. For a test transaction, it seems there was a great deal of attention paid to the rules, with the entire operation being carefully managed.

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The test is the latest step in a sequence that began in December 2025, when Visa announced a strategic roadmap to support Syria’s integration into the global digital economy. In February 2026 it hosted its first industry gathering of banks, ecosystem partners and policymakers in Damascus and, the same month, signed an agreement with Syria’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in San Francisco.

Michel Kattouah, Paymera’s CEO, called the test “the return of international card acceptance,” but while that’s positive news, there’s no word yet on when a Syrian bank will issue a Visa card to a Syrian customer.

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