Egypt's Interior Ministry launches new mechanised traffic unit

In a step to ease the registration of all vehicles in a single database, Egypt's authorities adopted a plan to move towards digitization to reduce human intervention and develop traffic services offered to the public.

On Tuesday, Egypt's Interior Ministry launched a new mechanised traffic unit (Aman) for vehicle owners services at Cairo's shopping mall in Nasr City, City Stars, to allow Egyptians to issue their vehicles official papers including Car registration documents and vehicles licenses.

Moreover, traffic offenders who receive notice from the police will soon be able to pay fines at the mechanised traffic office.

In the same context, car owners can, through the interior minister’s website, install their licenses immediately through a number of self-service machines at the smart traffic unit.

Earlier, the ministry provided a number of self-service machines that can be used for issuing birth certificates in four major places: Cairo, Sharm El-Sheikh, and Hurghada airports, in addition to a civil sector office in Abbasiya district, according to domestic reports.  

In  2015, the former Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yasser ElKady offered a tender to develop traffic services using information technology, aiming to improve and develop traffic services.