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The Dubai Metro ((アラビア語:مترو دبي)) is a driverless, fully automated metro rail network in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Red Line and Green Line are operational, with three further lines planned. These first two lines run underground in the city centre and on elevated viaducts elsewhere (elevated railway).〔(Roads & Transport Authority, UAE )〕 All trains and stations are air conditioned with platform edge doors to make this possible. The first section of the Red Line, covering 10 stations, was ceremonially inaugurated at 9:09:09 pm on 9 September 2009, by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dubai Metro Opens On Time But Over Budget )〕 with the line opening to the public at 6 am (UTC 04:00) on 10 September.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dubai metro unlikely to speed business growth )〕 The Dubai Metro is the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Will metro change Dubai car culture? )〕 and either the second in the Arab World (after the Cairo Metro) or the third (if the surface-level, limited-service Baghdad Metro is counted). More than 110,000 people, which is nearly 10 per cent of Dubai’s population, used the Metro in its first two days of operation.〔(TheNational.ae )〕 The Dubai Metro carried 10 million passengers from launch on 9 September 2009 to 9 February 2010 with 11 stations operational on the Red Line.〔(RTA.ad )〕 Engineering consultancy Atkins provided full multidisciplinary design and management of the civil works on Dubai Metro. Architecture firm Aedas were the architect who designed for Dubai system's 45 stations, two depots and operational control centres.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Designers transfer Hong Kong know-how to Dubai's new metro )〕 The construction of the Dubai Metro was undertaken by Al Ghurair Investment group.〔http://www.al-ghurair.com/en/its-about-commitment/metro-milestones/〕 A major expansion of the Red Line to add 15 kilometres of track and extend it from Ibn Battuta to the Expo 2020 site was announced in April 2015. Guinness World Records has declared Dubai Metro to be the world's longest fully automated metro network with a route length of .〔(Dubai in Guinness for longest driverless metro )〕 According to statement by Adnan Al Hammadi, Chief Executive of the Rail Agency and Transport Authority, Dubai Metro transported 33.3 million people in Q1 of 2013, a significant increase, compared to the same period of the previous year.〔http://www.dubaichronicle.com/2013/05/19/dubai-metro-transports-33-3-million-people-in-q1/〕 == Construction == Planning of the Dubai Metro began under the directive of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum who expected other projects to attract 15 million visitors to Dubai by 2010. The combination of a rapidly growing population (expected to reach 3 million by 2017) and severe traffic congestion necessitated the building of an urban rail system to provide additional public transportation capacity, relieve motor traffic, and provide infrastructure for additional development. In May 2005, a AED 12.45 billion/US$3.4 billion design and build contract was awarded to the Dubai Rail Link (DURL) consortium made up of Japanese companies including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Corporation, Obayashi Corporation, Kajima Corporation and Turkish firm Yapı Merkezi,〔(Dubai metro contract awarded ), Railway Gazette International 2005-07-01, retrieved 2008-03-15〕 and the Project Management ('The Engineer') and Construction Management services contract awarded to a French-American joint venture between Systra and Parsons Corporation. The first phase (worth AED 15.5 billion/US$4.2 billion) covers of the proposed network, including the Red Line between Al Rashidiya and the Jebel Ali Free Zone〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jebel Ali Free Zone )〕 set for completion by September 2009〔(Dubai RTA – Red Line Project ) as on 2007-09-09〕 and the Green Line from Al Qusais 2 to Al Jaddaf 1. This was to be completed by June 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ten key Dubai Metro stations set for launch )〕 A second phase contract was subsequently signed in July 2006 and includes extensions to the initial routes. The Red Line partially opened at 9 minutes and 9 seconds past 9 pm on 9 September 2009 (9/9/9 9:9:9), inaugurated by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UAE Vice President launches Dubai Metro )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dubai Metro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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