AHEAD OF THE GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR NOW HAS A TEMPORARY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, THAT CENTRALISES ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND PROVIDES REAL-TIME PROGRESS VISIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY FOR CLIENTS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, PRINCIPAL CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS.
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s for the engineering industry, engineers always believed that there are better ways of doing things and understood that the current utilised tools did not centralise the communications, nor did they provide adequate transparency, direct visibility and consistency. Previously as a Traffic Engineer working in mega projects, Mustafa Smeida saw the need in the market for an advanced tool to simplify doing traffic management 16
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administrative works for all relevant teams within the project. “Although there was a previous system attempt that only served a specific project scope, there wasn’t a single software available to manage all temporary traffic management projects’ scopes and requirements. Engineers and other teams were still relying on spreadsheets, emails and phone calls to communicate, which came at a big price,” Smeida says.
Using his personal experience as a key driver, Smeida set about finding the solution to close the gap and alleviate the need for multiple programs. This led to the formation of Integrated Project Management Systems (IPMSystems) in 2019, which initiated and introduced its flagship development, a software for Temporary Traffic Management. TOOFA is a bespoke software that is developed by traffic team experts who worked in the temporary traffic