Dubai's  Road and Transport Authority (RTA) will focus mainly on catering to the requirement of Expo 2020 during the next six years, a report said.

The RTA plans include a number of road projects which directly serve the Expo 2020, the Gulf News report said.

In addition, RTA will provide parking areas and internal roads/walkways needed to serve the expo site, it said.

Among the major infrastructure developments, RTA will be developing and operating transportation intelligent traffic systems and other systems needed to efficiently manage road and public transportation systems serving the Expo site.

RTA has already initiated the work on the ECCC (Enterprise Command Control Centre) project which aims to develop an integrated transportation control centre and central transportation media and risk management centres. In addition, RTA will provide systems needed to manage parting and taxi areas at the Expo 2020 site, Nasser Abu Shehab, director of strategic transportation planning at the RTA, was quoted as saying in the report.

Besides developing roads and IT systems, major focus of RTA's development programmes is an integrated public transport system to serve the Expo 202 site.

RTA is also developing pedestrian only areas as well as foot bridges. RTA has also developed a Bicycle Master Plan to develop 850 km of strategic bikeway by 2030.

The urban infrastructure of the Dubai emirate has expanded dramatically over the years, accommodating the rapid growth in population as well as traffic.

Dubai's population has grown by 44 per cent from around 1.53 million in 2007 to about 2.21 million by the end of 2013, the report said.

It quoted as saying that there has been a huge increase in the use of the mass transit systems of Dubai following the launch of the Metro.