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MANILA, Philippines 鈥擮n Thursday, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) announced that it plans to completely replace its legacy systems with a new online platform dubbed Land Transport Management System (LTMS) by August 2023.
After Thursday鈥檚 hearing before the House committee on transportation, LTO chief Jay Art Tugade issued a statement in which he claimed that nearly all of LTO鈥檚 LTMS was being used at all times.
According to Tugade, the utilization includes its Driver鈥檚 Licensing System (DLS), the renewal processing of Motor Vehicle Inspection & Registration System (MVIRS), the Law Enforcement & Traffic Adjudication System (LETAS), Revenue Collection System (RCS), Portal (front-facing application used by the general public), Online Application & Appointment System (OAAS), and Executive Information System (EIS).
鈥淥nce this is complete, the old system will be removed and the LTO will only use the LTMS,鈥� Tugade said.
Settlement of traffic violations through the Law Enforcement Handheld Mobile Devices is also set to be made available by April 30.
Tugade said the LTO has already issued a memorandum circular instructing the exclusive use of the LTMS for the renewal of the MVIRS to prevent the overlapping of systems.
The LTO is now also pilot-testing three new registration unit sites for the MVIRS, which aims to be made available to all 51 sites in the country by July 30.
Several modules in the LTMS are also still being completed for its registration exam, setting the schedule for its full utilization by August.
From there, the transactional data from the old system of Stradcom will be migrated to the Department of Information and Communications Technology and then transferred to the agency鈥檚 current provider Dermalog.
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