Metro Pacific
Tollways Corp. (MPTC),
the leading mobility infrastructure and solutions
provider in the Philippines,
joins the country in celebrating the road safety
month with ‘Mission: Road
Safety’. MPTC is undertaking this initiative to reinforce its expressways’
road safety mission based
on the 3 pillars of safety –
safe self, safe vehicle, and
safe roads.
“Mission: Road
Safety” institutionalizes
road safety awareness
seminars and digital information campaigns to
educate the general and
motoring public, ensuring
their safe journey along
MPTC expressways in Luzon and Visayas— NLEX,
SCTEX, NLEX Connector,
CALAX, CAVITEX, CAVITEX C5 Link, and CCLEX
(Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway).
The United Nations Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and
the Pacific (UNESCAP)
cited that an average
of 345 daily fatalities is
caused by transport accidents in the Philippines.
“Road safety is
at the core of Metro Pacific Tollways’ business. We
have advanced protocols
in place to avoid untoward incidents, we have
responsive on-ground and
24/7 hotline personnel to
ensure that our motorists
are well attended to, expressways that are built
for safety, and employees
who have passion for innovation to explore more
ways to better serve our
stakeholders,” MPTC
President and CEO Rodrigo Franco explained how
safety remains the top tier
in the list of priorities of the
group.
Empowered motorists and
commuting public
MPTC units
NLEX Corp and Metro Pacific Tollways South (MPT
South) have already established their efforts in
the road safety awareness
scene, through respective
flagship programs Biyahero Road Safety Caravan and Drayberks Drive
Road Safety Seminars.
These programs intensified education on proper
expressway driving, traffic
rules and regulations, importance of vehicle road
worthiness, and preparation of the driver (self) and
their passengers.
Cebu Cordova
Link Expressway Corporation (CCLEC)’s advocacy
program dubbed Istorya
Ta Bai! cultivates safe
driving habits and orients
motorists on key safety
features of Cebu’s iconic
toll bridge CCLEX.
‘Per stakeholder’ approach
To further
strengthen its efforts, business units target various
stakeholders that they
can tap to amplify MPTC’s
safety mission.
NLEX Usapang Driver is
a forum aimed at educating drivers from bus and
trucking companies on
safe expressway driving.
To date, over seven bus
and 13 trucking companies have participated in
this program. The unit also
has Kaligtasan sa Daan
(KalSaDa) road safety education program targeted
for its community partners
and neighboring barangays.
Last November
2022, NLEX and Paramount Consumer Products launched the ‘Nickelodeon Safety First with
PAW Patrol’ campaign
showcasing messages of
safety for children. The
safety messages can be
seen on toll plaza banners and billboards along
NLEX’s extensive road
network until June 2023.
MPT South’s Bayani ng
Kalsada (BayaniKa) is a
program that teaches kids
about road signs and familiarize them with road
safety measures, particularly on expressways.
Since its inception in 2022,
over 800 school children
from host communities
have benefitted from it.
Safety is practiced year
round
During peak travel seasons and holidays,
MPTC units from North to
South intensify their operations under the ‘Safe Trip
Mo Sagot Ko’ initiative. In
anticipation of increased
traffic volume, over 1,200
patrol crews, traffic marshals, and security teams
are deployed to ensure
effective traffic management along its expressways. Emergency medical services and incident
response teams are also
fielded at strategic areas.
Safe road for all
These efforts are
all in line with the United
Nations General Assembly
adopted resolution
“Improving global road
safety” with the ambitious target of preventing
at least 50% of road traffic deaths and injuries by 2023.
MPTC echoes
UN’s thrust in its corporate Sustainability Strategic Goals by continuously improving its services
and providing top notch
customer experience to
its stakeholders. Aside
from its tollways, MPTC
created the MPT DriveHub app that brings expressway services to the
hands of the customer to
bring about a more satisfactory travel experience.
The MPT DriveHub app
allows easy reloading of
RFID accounts, has real-time traffic updates of
its seven expressways,
and allows users to call for
24/7 emergency roadside
assistance.
To know more about
MPTC’s commitment to
road safety and line up of
activities for the road safety month, you may visit the
following channels:
NLEX-SCTEX: https://
www.facebook.com/
NLEXexpressways/
CALAX: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialCALAX/
CAVITEX: https://www.
facebook.com/cavitexpressway/CCLEX: https://www.facebook.com/CCLEXexpressway/
ABOUT MPTC
Metro Pacific Tollways
Corporation (MPTC) is
in the business of developing and operating toll
roads in the Philippines,
Indonesia, and Vietnam. It
is the biggest toll road developer in the Philippines,
with a current portfolio of
tollways that includes the
North Luzon Expressway
(NLEX), Subic-ClarkTarlac Expressway (SCTEX), Manila-Cavite Toll
Expressway (CAVITEX),
Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX), Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway
(CCLEX) and NLEX Connector Road (NLEX Connector).
MPTC also has investments in Indonesia via
PT Nusantara whose
operations comprise of
toll roads, ports, water,
and energy generation
and distribution; and in
Vietnam’s CII Bridges &
Roads Investment Joint
Stock Company that is
primarily engaged in the
construction, development
and operations of urban
infrastructure.
MPTC recently accelerated its digital transformation and expanded its
business offerings via its
two new business units—
MPT Digital Inc and MPT
Mobility.
MPT Digital Inc.
will continue to drive the
group’s internal and external digital transformation,
leverage on data for business insights, and implement enterprise support
systems.
MPT Mobility houses products and services to satisfy the customers’ mobility
needs and enhance their
experience. It has seven business units under
its fold, namely account
management company
Easytrip Services Corp.,
centralized customer response organization One
Hub, expressway rest stop
firm MPT Drive & Dine,
outsourced manpower
provider Savvice Corp.,
out of home advertising
unit Spot On, parking solutions company Dibz, and
innovation and diversification unit Business Development. MPT Mobility also
maintains and operates
the tollway group’s newest
mobile application, MPT
DriveHub.
MPTC is the tollways infrastructure unit of Metro
Pacific Investments Corp.
MPIC is one of three key
Philippines units of Hong
Kong- based First Pacific
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