KUWAIT, March 15 (KUNA) -- Assistant Undersecretary of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior and Director-General of the General Department of Traffic, Maj.
-Gen. Mahmoud Al-Dousary said Monday the traffic week events help to strengthen cooperation among the traffic authorities of the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
During his meeting with the delegates of the GCC countries to the traffic week here, Maj.-Gen. Al-Dousary said his department would put its resources at the disposal of the delegates to ensure the success of the event dubbed "beware of the others' errors." The meeting was also attended by Assistant Director-General of the General Department of Traffic for License Affairs and chairman of the organizing committee, Brig. Ihsan Al-Owaish, and Assistant Director-General for Technical Affairs Brig. Mehjem Al-Jallal.
Maj.-Gen. Al-Dousary welcomed the delegates and escorted them to the various divisions of his department including the traffics operations room where they were received by Captain Mohammad Jassem Al-Mansouri.
Captain Al-Manouri briefed his guests on the activities and tasks of the operations room which employs state-of-the-art technologies including fixed and mobile surveillance cameras to control traffics on all roads nationwide.
The delegates then moved to the central control unit of the traffic engineering department where they were briefed by Eng. Faisal Khalaf Al-Dhafeiri on the computerized system of planning for the traffics and controlling the intersection points.
Eng. Al-Dhafeiri explained how his unit handles the changing messages and controls the traffic signs to guide motorists as well as the transformation from the off-line to the online system.
At the Ministry's vehicles department, chief of the department Lt.-Col. Hamed Al-Mubarak briefed the guests on the mechanism of renewing and transferring the private car licenses as well as the procedures of licensing and re-exporting relating to buses and taxis.
As part of the GCC traffic week which opened on Sunday and will come to an end on March 20 the delegates took part in the traffic operation workshop themed "traffic signs" and hosted by Easa Hussain Al-Yousifi and Sons Co.. - Kuna