Lagos Plans Hi-Tech Traffic Management System

Lagos state Government yesterday
concluded a one-week training
course for over 500 officers of the
Lagos State Traffic Management
Authority, LASTMA, aimed at
equipping them with necessary
knowledge and skills to manage
traffic with Hi-Tech equipments.
Commissioner for Transportation,
Mr. Kayode Opeifa while addressing
the officers at the end of the training
held in Alausa Secretariat, said that
the training will help the officers to
utilise the hi-tech equipments that
would be acquired by the state
government very soon for traffic
management in the state.
According to Opeifa, "The state
government has concluded plans to
acquire hi-tech traffic software to
move traffic and transport
management from the present
manual analogue to a more
sophisticated and scientific based
mode."
He added that the training and the
equipments will afford the officers
ability to manage traffic with easy.
The commissioner expressed the
hope that participants would at the
end of the training master the
fundamentals of the various areas of
hi-tech traffic and incidence
management and other strategic
related areas.
Earlier in his goodwill message, the
Lagos State Head of Service, Mr.
Adesegun Ogunlewe said that the
workshop provides a veritable
platform for professionals to learn
about best practices which are in
conformity with acceptable global
standard in some areas of core
competence in traffic and traffic
engineering.
Mr Ogunlewe, described the training
as a step in the right direction as the
government could now boast of
informed professionals and
institutions that would consistently
seek to improve the process of
service delivery, while not
compromising standard and
compliance.
Declaring the workshop open, the
Commissioner for Establishment,
Training and Pensions, Mrs. Florence
Oguntuase, said public servants
should understand the key policy
thrust of the State Government in
order to situate the relevance and
importance of their services.
The Commissioner therefore charged
the participants to absorb all the
knowledge they can and
subsequently put them to good use
at their various duty posts to justify
the investment of the government in
improving their competences and
capabilities.
The all inclusive workshop have
participants drawn from Ministries,
Departments and Agencies whose
services directly or indirectly impact
on public transportation including
students from the School of
Transport of the Lagos State
University, Ojo.
The facilitators are from two world
acclaimed Transport Engineering
Consortium from the United States
of America, Info Trans Engineering
Incorporated, New Jersey and Sam
Schwartz Engineers, New York.
It is expected that the participants at
the end of workshop would be able
to identify techniques and conduct
Road Safety Audit, design effective
traffic control plan and demonstrate
detailed understanding of advanced
incident management and rescue
operations, amongst others.