Enabling all Payment Platforms for Fuel Payment!
The Ministry of Transport and Logistics and Ethio telecom have launched the Cross-Country Public Transport Service System, the Integrated Fuel Supply System Solution (ENABLING ALL PAYMENT PLATFORMS FOR FUEL PAYMENT), and the National Traffic Point-Based Penalty Management System.
These systems will play a significant role in cross-country public transport, the fuel supply chain and modernizing traditional operational procedures in traffic penalty management. They will enable timely access to accurate data for fuel supply and transactions, allow customers to use various financial institution options, establish transparent procedures, and eliminate user inconvenience.
The digital solutions unveiled today are:
1. Cross-Country Public Transport Service System
This digital solution is a comprehensive system designed to easily manage and streamline the processes for accessing cross-country public transport services. It provides a unified solution for the Ministry of Transport and Logistics and for nationwide implementation, covering everything from licensing and regulatory compliance to ticketing and digital payments.
This will significantly contribute to resolving delays and time wasted by manual ticket purchases for travelers, shortening licensing processes, saving time wasted due to incomplete or incorrect documents, ensuring transparency in sales and revenue, preventing theft and fraud that could occur by transport service providers or travelers, modernizing data management to address challenges, and providing reliable, real-time information on bus movements, ticket sales, passenger numbers, and service coverage.
The digital solution significantly contributes to reducing administrative costs by digitizing the existing manual/paper-based transport dispatch system, licensing and registration systems, driver and vehicle registration and dispatch, as well as manual ticket printing and payments. It will also enable real-time monitoring, operational control, and reporting for stakeholders, and modernize route planning, scheduling, and terminal (bus station) management.
Furthermore, it allows passengers/travelers to use their mobile phones to purchase cross-country bus tickets anytime, anywhere, in various local languages including English, using different payment options including telebirr, and easily book and confirm their seats.
2. Integrated Fuel Supply System Solution (ENABLING ALL PAYMENT PLATFORMS FOR FUEL PAYMENT)
This fuel supply system solution is a nationwide integrated system connecting all financial institutions (all banks, wallets, and microfinance institutions) with the central fuel management system. It is a solution that enables all fuel stations across the country to work in coordination and conduct fuel transactions smoothly through a unified procedure.
This is highly beneficial for the Ministry of Transport and Logistics and the Petroleum and Energy Authority to obtain real-time reports, establish better market control, closely monitor national fuel reserves, distribution, and sales to curb illegal fuel trade, ensure transparency and accountability, and make data-driven decisions. For fuel stations, it will enable them to accommodate fuel payments from all banks and wallets, including telebirr, and establish improved and efficient service delivery.
Furthermore, it allows drivers to refuel at any fuel station across Ethiopia using various payment options, including telebirr. For financial institutions, it enables cost and time savings, facilitates rapid access to the fuel market, and ensures service delivery competitiveness.
3. National Traffic Point-Based Penalty Management System
This system helps ensure traffic laws are properly implemented nationwide. It establishes digitally assisted traffic penalty management, centrally records data, and enables a uniform national traffic management system.
Specifically, it plays a major role in fully digitizing the current manual traffic penalty system nationwide. It will also address data limitations and inefficient resource use by analyzing data and overcome challenges of information scarcity for policymaking by supporting digital records, a centralized traffic penalty system, traffic penalty point management, and convenient penalty payment.
Furthermore, it allows for registering complete driver information in the country, monitoring traffic law violations, and realizing healthy traffic flow. The solution will have significant benefits for the growth of the transport and traffic sector by enhancing traffic penalty management and enforcement and enabling regional transport bureaus to modernize their operations with the support of telecloud without requiring additional investment and costs.
The implementation of this digital solution will increase operational efficiency and transparency for traffic/transport bureaus, enable data-driven improvement and enforcement of traffic laws, and save operational costs. For drivers, it will save time wasted in accessing services by facilitating easy penalty payments, avoid unnecessary harassment, and reduce their exposure to traffic accidents.
Moreover, for federal and regional governments, its benefits are significant for making traffic law enforcement processes effective, allowing them to use the solution without needing extra costs to develop new systems, implement consistent and standardized traffic policies, obtain instant reports for decision-making, and ensure greater transparency and accountability. The service can be accessed via website, mobile application, and SMS.
Our company is diligently working to implement digital innovations. Therefore, these solutions, presented in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport and Logistics, demonstrate Ethio telecom’s commitment to transforming Ethiopia’s transport landscape with modern technology and digital solutions.
The development of these implemented solutions by private software development institutions, along with the easy integration of various financial institution options with our company’s systems and telebirr via API, has enhanced interoperability, fostered job creation, and strengthened an inclusive digital ecosystem.
The Ministry of Transport and Logistics and Ethio telecom
Ethio telecom
May 14, 2025