The Ministry of Transport and Logistics, in partnership with Ethio Telecom, has unveiled a comprehensive digital transport management system aimed at modernizing Ethiopia’s intercity travel services. The platform, launched Tuesday at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Addis Ababa, is designed to consolidate cross-country bus operations, operator licensing, ticketing, fuel payments, and traffic penalty systems into an integrated digital framework.
The system seeks to improve regulatory oversight, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance transparency across the country’s sprawling intercity transport network. Officials say it will cover more than 1,995 intercity buses and serve around 480,000 passengers each month, while digitizing key services such as online ticketing, fare and route management, and operator licensing.
Biruk Adane, chief mobile money officer at Telebirr, Ethio Telecom’s mobile financial platform, said the system will integrate 13 cross-country bus associations and 255 registered inter-regional routes. It is expected to facilitate up to 325 million ticket transactions monthly.
A key component of the platform crafted by Ethiotelecom is the national traffic penalty management system, which replaces all manual fine payments with digital transactions. The platform supports multiple payment gateways and aims to ensure that 100 percent of traffic-related payments are processed electronically within a unified digital system. Ethiopia’s transport ministry managed to collect more half a billion birr from traffic penalties across nine months in 2023.
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