Dubai Metro

> World’s longest fully automatic driverless train system, according to Guinness World Records in 2012

> 830m riders took the Metro since it was rolled out on September 9, 2009 at 09.09.09pm

> 15,058,854 riders for the month of August 2016 alone (Red Line, 9,514,209; Green Line 5,544,645) > 75 kilometres route length > 49 stations > > 99.9 per cent of trains are on time > 79 trains total; each train consists of 5 coaches > 50 trains operate at peak times with maximum running speed of 90km per hour.

> 25,720 passengers per hour per direction (pphpd) is the ultimate capacity for Red Line

> 25,720 pphpd: Ultimate capacity for Green Line > August 21, 2005: Start of the construction of Red Line (Phase-1); launched September 9, 2009 > July 18, 2006: Construction of Green Line (Phase-2); inaugurated September 9, 2011 > Route 2020 is the extension of the Dubai Metro Red Line, covering 15km from Nakheel Harbour & Tower Station to the site of Expo 2020. Project cost: Dh10.6b > 300,000 metric tonnes of carbon emissions were reduced in 2015 because of Dubai Metro

Dubai’s public transportation system is very organised. Their app is very helpful. The bus is most convenient for me because I work in Silicon Oasis and there is no Metro to get there.”

Rekha Gangadharan, Indian, data analyst