The Land Transportation Office has continued promoting its push toward digitalization. The Land Transport Management System or LTMS is one of their earliest online facilities that aim to make dealing with the agency more convenient. But it’s been buggy and its features are lacking. It seems that that’s being remedied, though, as a full rollout and utilization are set for August of this year.
LTMS portal will be at 100% functionality by August 2023
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The future is digital, indeed. Meant to fast-track the delivery of the agency’s different services for the benefit of the public, the LTMS’ rollout has mainly seen action in recent years for driver’s license renewals. LTO is ramping up its full development and in about six months, all the services that were once done face-to-face can already be facilitated online.
There is a whole slew of transactions that can be done through the LTMS, at least once it’s fully up and running, and the long list includes the Driver’s Licensing System’s (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).
A recent deliberation by the Committee on Transportation at the House of Representatives assessed that these services are already at 100% functionality. Regarding the new registration module of the MVIRS, though, the agency is currently pilot testing it in three new registration unit (NRU) sites; all 51 of these NRUs will have it available for their use by July 30, 2023.
Tugade later said that a Memorandum Circular has likewise been issued, with the instruction that the renewal through MVIRS must be used exclusively via the LTMS to “prevent the overlapping of systems”. As for settling violations and apprehensions, they can start being settled through the Law Enforcement Handheld Mobile Devices by April 30, 2023.
By the time it’s fully rolled out, 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’s current provider Dermalog. “Once this is complete, the old system will be removed and the LTO will only use the LTMS,” Tugade stated. “All regional directors are aligned with the agency’s mission,” he added, after being asked by the committee on the issue of some regional directors reportedly being uncooperative in the acceptance of the LTMS.
If you haven’t yet, now is the perfect time to create an LTMS account for your own (future) convenience. We’ve put up an extremely simple guide on how to do so, and you can find it here.
What can you say about the agency’s efforts to future-proofing its agency and its services? Do you think all these facilities from the LTMS portal, to the digital ticketing system, and all the others in the pipe can and will be used to their full potential? Most importantly, do you believe that they will pave the way towards a corruption- and red tape-free LTO? This will be most interesting to see, and everyone’s going to follow these developments, for sure.
