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.
LinkedIn · E-Bus Xpress Kiira Ltd
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.
Briefing
What this piece covers.
The Ministry of Works and Transport has been rolling digital number plates as part of an intelligent transport management system. The plates carry RFID and QR identifiers so a vehicle can be read against a central record — the stated aims being traffic management, security and enforcement.
Number plates are only the visible edge. Behind them sit cameras, readers, radio and a register that has to stay available. That is ITS work: identification, communications and a system an operator can actually run.
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