Arab Finance: You need The transportation and road system in Egypt For many reforms and policies to protect the lives of many citizens who are on the roads, the last of which was Regional road accident Which killed 19 girls who died as a result of this incident, and here in this report we talked with transportation and road experts who confirmed that the solution lies in several rules, the most important of which is transparency in announcing transportation and road projects before implementing them, especially major projects, which need a community dialogue and a study of the environmental and societal impact before implementing them.
Transparency
For his part, Dr. Osama Aqeel, Professor of Road Engineering and Transport at Ain Shams University, said that transparency and advertising road and transport projects and the availability and circulation of information before implementing them is one of the most prominent rules that must be adhered to to achieve the study of the impact of these projects on the community and the environment surrounding the project, and put them on societal dialogue to avoid any errors that may occur during or after the implementation of the project.
Aqeel added, in exclusive statements to Arab Finance that the plans of the Ministry of Transport and Roads must be announced before implementation, and that the media have a role in presenting it to the public, experts and specialists to evaluate these projects, and this makes the public opinion defend the project because his opinion has been taken, and these rules are applied in the whole world where major projects are presented to the roads and transportation to public opinion, as public opinion must be taken into account with the commitment of course the supervisory role on these methods yet Implementing them to meet road accidents and avoid any deficiencies or problems in them.
While Dr. Abdullah Abu Khadra, Professor of Road Engineering, Transport and Traffic at the Faculty of Engineering, Beni Suef University, said that the punishment should be increased to violators of traffic rules and roads, noting that the traffic law referred to the House of Representatives is currently when he leaves the light will be a deterrent to many of these violations, as well as the necessity of raising awareness and spreading the traffic culture for road users, and they are not only the drivers of the vehicles but also pedestrians to raise awareness of safety and safety rules Roads.
Separate transport cars paths from Al -Maliki
The Professor of Road Engineering and Transport added that the Egyptian state recently carried out several procedures to reduce road accident rates by separating transport vehicles from the owners cars and allocating separate lanes for each of them, and the movement also liberated on these roads completely through the absence of intersections and rotation back on the roads, as this is done through bridges and tunnels with no surface intersections in roads that can be a cause of road accidents.
He explained that the state is also currently heading to the smart transport project to maximize the benefit of technology in road control, control of speeds and control violators of traffic and traffic rules. The state also relied on road alternatives from railway and river transport to reduce road loads.
Abu Khadra stressed the need to shift from the flexible paving of roads, which needs greater maintenance rates to concrete paving, which provides the frequent maintenance costs that the flexible paving needs.
Abu Khadra called for the necessity of returning to the green transport methods, as Egypt was one of the first countries to rely on this type of road, as the second country in the world had a tram in 1869 while recovering the role of the railway to preserve the road network and reduce loads on it, as well as increasing investment and relying on river transport that many loads bear more than other roads with the need to pump more investments in the transport sector of all kinds.
On the main causes of road accidents, he stressed that any road accident due to three reasons, the first is the human factor, the second is the state of roads and the third is the state of the vehicle and according to the Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt, 76% of road accidents in Egypt is due to the human worker and 20% is due to vehicles and 4% of accidents belongs to the road state, pointing out that the vehicle driver is of course responsible for maintaining and maintaining the frames and changing them in the appropriate date, including including Reduces road accidents.
Abu Khadra noted the existence of coordination between the ministries of health and the interior to conduct the necessary drug analysts for vehicle drivers, as well as radars that monitor the speeds on the roads and the extent of adherence to the speeds prescribed for each road.
At the end of his speech, a professor of road engineering advised the necessity of focusing drivers while driving and not driving during the exhaustion period, not driving under the influence of the drug, and the speed of reaction to the ownership commander on the roads while maintaining periodic maintenance and control of roads by the competent government agencies.
More than 5 thousand deceased in road accidents in 2024
According to the annual bulletin of the results of car accidents and trains in Egypt for the year 2024 issued in April 2025 by the Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics, Arab Finance obtained a copy of it, the number of deceased people on road accidents reached 5260 deceased during the year 2024 compared to 5861 in 2023, a decrease of 10.3%, and according to the same bulletin the number of deceased in Cairo Governorate reached 766 deceased where Cairo Governorate came in first place As the highest number of deceased people at the governorate level, while Suez came in the last place as the lowest number for the deceased, as he reached 6 in 2024.
The number of males deceased in road accidents reached 4397 cases, while the number of females from the deceased reached 863, representing 83.6% of the total male deaths, and 16.4% of the total female deaths in 2024.
The number of road accident injuries in Egypt during the year 2024, according to the Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics, reached 76,362 injuries compared to 71016 in 2023, an increase of 7.5%, and Dakahlia Governorate came the highest number of injuries at the governorate level, as it reached 15563 injuries, while the lowest number of injuries in Suez Governorate reached 39 injuries during 2024.
While the number of cars injuries during the past year reached 4,226, compared to 16820 resulting from train accidents.
The Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics monitored the most dangerous points on the roads, including the regional ring road, which recently witnessed the death of 19 girls in their way to work on a grape farmer, where the tunnel is not paved in Cairo Governorate as the most dangerous areas, while stating that the entire regional ring road in Giza Governorate is one of the most dangerous points, while the regional intersection areas with Nazlet Menoufia in both directions are among the most dangerous areas as well.
The Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics also identified in its annual deployment responsible for road accidents, as the number of accidents was the responsibility of the Roads Authority and the non -220 accidents that resulted in 57 deaths during 2024, as well as 104 injuries.
The transportation sector gets the largest share of public investments
The data of the Ministry of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation revealed that public investments in the field of transportation for the year 2024 amounted to 248 billion, 906 million and 700 thousand pounds, and the transport and storage sector came from the highest sectors that obtained contributions from the total public investments, where he received 36.93% during the second quarter of 2024/2025 compared to 24.27% from the second quarter of 2023/2024.
According to the state’s general budget, the total estimates of the authority’s budget for the fiscal year 2024/2025 amounted to 27 billion and 100 million and 112 thousand pounds, and the authority’s credits for the fiscal year recorded 2023/2024 the amount of 47 billion and 364 million and 34 thousand pounds, with a reduction of 20 billion and 263 million and 922 thousand pounds, with a reduction of 43%.
The total estimates of the authority’s budget were distributed as follows, a current budget estimated at an amount of 3 billion, 485 million and 961 thousand pounds, and an investment budget estimated at an amount of 22 billion, 298 million and 458 thousand pounds.
While the budget estimates for the authority for the fiscal year amounted to 2024/2025 the amount of 3 billion and 485 million and 961 thousand pounds, and the credits of the fiscal year 2023/2024, the amount of 3 billion 248 million and 95 thousand pounds, an increase of 237 million and 866 thousand pounds, an increase of 7%.
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