Transport & Mobility · 2024
Uganda’s Digital Number Plates and Intelligent Transport.
Phase three of the digital plate rollout sits inside a wider intelligent transport system — RFID, QR identification and vehicle records.
LinkedIn · LinkedIn Pulse
Transport & Mobility · 2025
One Year of Electric Public Transport in Uganda.
E-Bus Xpress closed its first full year of operations, pairing electric buses with cashless payments and journey tracking.
Briefing
What this piece covers.
Uganda’s first electric public-transport service has completed a full year of scheduled running. The operator reports three mobility belts in Eastern Uganda and a cashless fare system built with the country’s telecom networks, so a trip is both electric and tracked.
The piece is a progress note, not a specification. What it does show is the stack that electric fleets actually need — vehicles, charging, payments and network coverage — which is the same stack transport and ICT programmes have to hold together if the service is to stay on the road.
Samanga did not write these articles. The briefing on this page is ours; the original stays on LinkedIn.
Further reading
More briefings.
Transport & Mobility
IoT Traffic Control for East African Cities.
A practical note on sensors, cameras and adaptive signals — and why Kampala, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are named as the test case.
LinkedIn · Farouk Mwanje Kavuma
Energy Solutions · 2025
UEDCL Takes On Uganda’s Power Distribution Network.
After taking over from Umeme, UEDCL has set out how it intends to stabilise distribution — audits, overload work and system upgrades.
LinkedIn · LinkedIn Pulse