The idea for developing a public transport center evolved as a result of the honorable directive that was issued by His Royal Highness Prince Salman Ibn Abdulaziz, the Emir of Riyadh District. On the basis of that directive, economic feasibility studies and other marketing studies were conducted. All contingent actual and future requirements pertinent to transport companies and commuters to and from Riyadh via this center were taken in account.

It was noticed that over the last years that elapsed there had been a considerably growing expansion an constant development in transporting passengers between the main cities in the K.S.A. and other capital cities of neighboring Arab countries besides the Haj and Umrah trips from Riyadh to Makkah. As a result of this, the transport companies operating in this business multiplied and crammed up at Shamsiya area which lies in Batha, the downtown of Riyadh. Consequently, the area became more congested and the difficulty in offering the various services relevant to domestic and international transport was aggravated.

The subsequent situation made it necessary to seriously think of contriving radical solutions that would result in an immediate relief. Attracting greater numbers of domestic and international customers as wells as securing future land transport constituents are of prime importance.

Launching from these considerations, Arriyadh Development Company prepared comprehensive plans aimed at diagnosing the transport problem in order to come up with convenient solutions in collaboration with a number of relevant agencies. Following extensive studies on some proposed sites on one of which the center would be constructed, the company procured the consent of the Ministry of Communications to construct the Public Transport Center at the southern sector of the Circular Highway