Palm Monorail

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Palm Monorail
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The Monorail testing in February 2009
Overview
Locale Dubai
Transit typestraddle-beam monorail
Number of lines1
Number of stations5 open, 1 planned
Daily ridership~40,000 (capacity), under contemporary interval 23,000. Current ridership much lower.
Website www.palmmonorail.com
Operation
Began operationApril 30, 2009
Operator(s) Serco
Number of vehicles4 (2009) [1] (only two visually seen in July 2014)
Technical
System length5.45 kilometres (3 mi) [2]
Average speed35 km/h (22 mph)
Top speed70 km/h (43 mph)
System map

Contents

Legend
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 Atlantis Aquaventure
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The Pointe
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Nakheel Mall
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Al Ittihad Park
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Gateway   T1  
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Dubai Internet City  M1  
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Plan Overview Of Palm Monorail Route

The Palm Monorail is a monorail line on the Palm Jumeirah island in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is operated by the UK-based Serco. The monorail connects the Palm Jumeirah to the mainland, with a planned further extension to the Red Line of the Dubai Metro. [2] The line opened on April 30, 2009 as the Palm Jumeirah Monorail. [3] It is the first monorail in the Middle East. [4]

The trains are driverless, with attendants for any emergency situations. [1] It's currently runs from Gateway Station to Atlantis Aquaventure and stopped at the new Al Ittihad Park Station in between. [5]

History

Construction began on the 5.45-kilometre (3.39 mi) monorail line in March 2006, [2] under the supervision of Marubeni Corporation, with the monorail track completed in July 2008 and vehicle testing beginning in November 2008. Originally planned to open by December 2008, [6] the opening was delayed to April 30, 2009. [2] [6] In 2010, day-to-day operations were taken over by the British company Serco. [7]

The project budget is US$400 million, with an additional US$190M set aside for a 2-kilometre (1.2 mi) future extension to the Dubai Metro, [8] while other sources state a budget of US$1.1 billion. [9] A journey on the monorail costs Dhs20 one-way, 30 return.

The Al Ittihad Park station, originally intended to serve the cancelled Trump International Hotel and Tower development, was opened on July 3, 2017. [10] Nakheel Mall station opened on November 28, 2019. [11]

Technology

The Palm Monorail uses Hitachi Monorail straddle-type technology. The electro-mechanical works are carried out by ETA-Dubai in joint venture with Hitachi-Japan. Omron Electronics Company will provide the train equipment electronic system which will works by using the smart card technique. [12]

Ridership

Each carriage has 70 seats and can accommodate 232 standing passengers, for a total of 302 people. [13]

The line has a theoretical capacity of 40,000 passengers per day, with trains running every few minutes during peak hours and every 15 to 20 minutes during off-peak hours. [2] [4] However, actual ridership averaged around 600 passengers per day during the first week, [14] and the monorail ran "virtually empty". [15] As of July 2017, the line runs every 11 minutes and averages 3,000 passengers per day. [10]

Stations

Palm Gateway station has more than 1,600 parking spaces available. [18]

Planned extension

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