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Qatar
Mobility
Innovations
Centre
The first of its kind in the region, Qatar
Mobility Innovations Centre (QMIC)
seeks to address challenges in the areas of
transport, healthcare, the environment,
and sports by pioneering smart mobility
systems and services.
Q
MIC aims to use locally-engineered innovations
and knowledge to create technology-based
industries that address local and regional challenges.
Among the challenges currently being addressed by
QMIC’s team of researchers and thinkers are how to
improve Qatar’s traffic systems, rethinking local postal
delivery systems, and deploying automated vehicle
systems in the region.
The centre’s flagship smart living product is Masarak™,
a suite of transportation and logistics solutions
developed in partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of
Municipality and Environment. Masarak’s suite of
products and services tackle major daily challenges
on Qatar’s roads, such as traffic congestion, workflow
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delays, and road hazards. They include a popular
mobile app that helps drivers assess traffic conditions
and select the shortest and fastest routes.
QMIC is a locally-conceived yet widely-influential
set-up that represents the best of QNV 2030 in
practice – knowledge-based innovation driving
forward a diversifying economy. And its reach is
extending beyond Qatar’s borders, with January 2017
seeing the signature of a partnership with Belgian
enterprise, SmartEnds.