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With Gulf Traffic just around the
corner, the movers and shakers of
the traffic technology world will
soon be heading to the Middle
East. But many of them are in the
region already. According to recent research, the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia
are among the top 12 global markets for
infrastructure investment and the total value of
active infrastructure projects in the Middle East
and North Africa amounts to a whopping
US$1.14 trillion. Of this figure, US$122.6 billion
is being spent on 1,069 new roads and highways
being built throughout the region.
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“Motivated by the vision of becoming
a regional powerhouse that attracts investments
and to branch out from oil, the Gulf countries
are some of the world’s most determined when it
comes to developing large-scale infrastructure”,
explains Rahul Rawat, exhibition director of
Gulf Traffic. “Transport is the second-largest
planned project sector in the Middle East and
Dubai is even seeking to become a global leader
in driverless mobility by 2030.”
It all underlines how ripe the region is for
investment and particularly in road traffic
technologies which is increasingly in demand
across the Gulf. Events like Gulf Traffic then
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