Tech expert advocates automation of traffic management to improve safety

Mr. Wale Sonaike Deputy Managing Director, Courteville Business Solutions PLC, at a high-tech stakeholders meeting held recently in Lagos has advocated the full automation of Motor Vehicle Administration in the country to firm up efficiency in traffic management, improve Transportation Safety and reduce the spate of insecurity on our roads.

Mr. Sonaike averred that the need for the automation of the Transport sector is owing to the rising cases of fake documentations in Driver’s Licence procurement, fake vehicle documentations, falsification of records and extortions of perceived traffic offenders by enforcement agents.

Speaking further, Sonaike said his company took the lead with the innovation of a mobile hand held device known as AutoReg, the first in the Country, used for collating transport Data that has helped State Governments and Federal Agencies in Automating every aspect of Motor Vehicle Administrations.

According to Mr. Sonaike, “our vision as a company is to be a globally accepted business solutions company supplying unique services for the Transport industry with locally developed innovations.

“We made an incursion into the public sector through the reengineering of the Motor Vehicle Administration process through our flagship product known as the AutoRegTM.
“The application was pioneered in Lagos State through the Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA).”

Sonaike pointed out that Lagos is ahead of other States in the adoption of the technology, having embraced automation process some three decades earlier, making it easier for the integration of the AutoReg as a pioneer State.

Courteville AutoReg, according to him is currently in 22 States which is an evidence of wide spread adoption, stressing that, “for better collaborative efforts, the various States where we work have consented to data upload to our national Vehicle Information System (NVIS) managed by FRSC for ease of management, verifications and enforcement of compliance on our roads.’

Engineer Fidel Ambrose, a Tech expert from Imo State, affirmed that offenders are easily captured using the AutoReg application either for expired documents, traffic issues or for non-compliance offences.

“It is worthy to note that the AutoReg platform has become a veritable platform to recover stolen vehicles as well as eliminating double vehicle registration and confirmation of vehicle chassis along International standards before registrations are carried out,”

His position was also corroborated by Mallam Dahiru Saliu, a Transporter based in Abuja, who said, “the AutoReg application is apt and have been in the market for over 15 years, suggesting a high level of acceptability and relevance.

Mr. Wale while answering questions from Journalists on how the application can be used to curb cases of people being robbed in traffic gridlocks, including those in both private and commercial vehicles, those attacked for boarding some commercial vehicles commonly called ‘one chance’,

He said, ‘hi-tech is the way to go as being deployed in developed countries for similar purposes. The digitalization of surveillance and deployment of tracking technology is the right way to go.

“There is also the need for proper digital registration of all vehicles both for the private and commercial ones, visibly displayed permits of driver’s details and registration is also advisable for commercial transports, which is part of what we are offering through our AutoReg Application. He added