Mwasalat ferries 4.5mn passengers in 2017, new technolgies to be launched

Mwasalat ferried more than 4.5 million passengers during the period from January 1 to 31 December 2017 on all its city routes in Muscat and the inter-city to the various governorates of the Sultanate, an increase of 21 per cent from 2016. The buses carried on average 1,000 passengers per day. On Fridays 18,000 passengers used Mwasalat.

The percentage of Omanis passenger in the buses were 40 per cent during the survey period.

Ruwi- Mabela
The total number of passengers in the city routes the Ruwi-Mabela route reached more than 1.6 million, followed by the Roy-Wadi Kabir line with more than 700,000 passengers, the Roy-Amerat with more than 600,000, Al-Khoud – Sultan Qaboos University – Burj al Sahwa with more than 400,000 passengers, (Ruwi-Muttrah – Al Alam Palace with more than 300,000 passengers, Ruwi – Wadi Adei with 200,000 and Mabela- South Mabela with 82, 000 passengers, bringing the total number in Muscat routes to 4,212.189 million passengers. The total number of passengers who travelled to Dubai were 304,340 passengers.

Mawasalat signed an agreement for the supply of 98 new buses in October 2017, including 33 for inter-city routes and 65 for Muscat city services. This is in addition to the plans for the replacement of a number of long-distance buses.

This month, Mawasalat will get the first of its 33 new MAN buses, equipped with leading accident prevention systems such as the EBA and LGS, along with adaptive cruise control (ACC). The new buses also have a radar device and cameras installed to determine the speed and distance between two vehicles on the bus. The new buses are expected to start operating in the first quarter of the current year.

With the arrival of new buses, new public transport lines will be operated inside and outside Muscat Governorate, especially Salalah and Sohar.