Palm Jumeirah Monorail

The Dubai Monorail is one for the city of Dubai (United Arab Emirates ) private planned and begun in 2006 monorail system.

Planning and History

The total of seven planned routes will begin each located near major hubs or directly to stations of the Dubai Metro in order from there with relatively short stub lines to use settlement concentrations or interesting destinations. 2005, a private joint venture of Japanese and domestic companies was established to build the Dubai Monorail. The Japanese companies under project leadership of Marubeni assume here, as with the Dubai Metro, the planning and technical side, the domestic enterprises ( Nakheel ) take over the project management and are responsible for the Fahrstreckenbau.

The monorail system is - out on viaducts - like the vast stretches of the Dubai Metro. The driverless vehicles are guided to cross on their own viaducts and water areas, an important property in the many off the coast and inland Dubai's emerging artificial islands, bays and channels.

First line gateway Palm - Atlantis The Palm Dubai

The first 5.45 km long route from the gateway to Palm outside the hotel complex Atlantis, The Palm Atlantis Dubai was officially opened on 30 April 2009. She has two intermediate stations ( Palm Mall and Trump Hotel & Tower, both not yet opened ) and can cover with a capacity of 2400 people per hour, or 40,000 per day a moderate demand. On land, this first track is initially connected only provisionally: bus lines take over current feeder services and only in 2012 it expects to complete the new As- Sufuh - line tram Dubai, which in turn is connected to the red metro line. Medium term, the monorail line is to be connected with a two-kilometer southern extension to station " Nakheel " directly to the Metro. The experience with the first monorail line are far disappointing because of the economic downturn and the complicated onshore connection rides the short path usually completely underutilized. To make matters worse, that the private monorail not belong to the tariff structure of the new Dubai-based transport system, the journeys thus need to be paid additionally.

Other planned routes

The other lines of the Dubai Monorail will be ready for use until about 2018 under their respective progress and requirement of the extended areas or major projects. Due to the financial crisis, however, no construction work was carried out since the opening of the first track (as of 2011).

Importance for Dubai's public transport

The Dubai monorail system is another element in public transport of the fast growing metropolis of the Persian Gulf. It was still expected in 2008 that the population will develop in 2010 with 1.8 million inhabitants to approximately 5.2 million inhabitants in 2020. The targeted public transport network system of Dubai will build modular after completion of all components: Metro, Monorail (subject to the tariff integration ), trams, "normal" buses, pure Metro feeder buses and ferries / water taxis supplemented by car taxis waiting at every stop of the tracks. The planners hope that the often stuck in traffic jams forming Dubai's private transport ( per 1000 inhabitants in 2008 came about 700 cars) by the improved public transport can defuse.