Route 2020, the Dubai Metro extension on the Red Line to Expo 2020 Dubai, starts commercial operation on January 1.
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00:00The first stations which will be operated on this new line is four stations, starting
00:16from Jabal Ali station towards Gardens and then Discovery Gardens and Al Furjan.
00:22Three more stations on the line which will be announced by RTA when the operation will
00:30start later on.
00:32Of course, the full operation of the line will be before the Expo launch in October.
00:38There are some improvements that have been done in the interior design as well as the
00:44distribution of the seats within the train to accommodate mainly more people in the trains.
00:51So we used to have the previous trains with a capacity of 643 passengers.
00:56Now we can have 699 passengers in each train.
01:01We have improved the interior design by adding some digital screens, maps for example, within
01:09the train.
01:10This will help people to interact with the destinations they are aiming for in a better way.
01:17During the design stage, we have looked into the best practice and what is the latest technology
01:23and how we can design and build our station based on the best practice and best technology.
01:28So one of the important things now in any country or any project that you build is the
01:34energy, how you are optimising the energy.
01:37So there is a LEED certificate.
01:39So this whole Route 2020 or Expo line has been designed to be Gold LEED certified.
01:45In the design, we have considered the Gold LEED certification and this is one of the
01:50stations, the first metro station in the world that got Gold LEED certification.
01:55In the whole design of the station, the lighting from outside, how you can optimise the using
02:01of the energy in the station, the escalator, the travelator, the lifts, the lighting inside
02:07all these glasses, how you can optimise.
02:10So all of these, and also we have another thing which is the consumption of the power
02:14on the train, how we also put something to optimise the energy that used to be wasted energy.
02:21Now it's not wasted, we can use it or utilise it in order to use that train power which
02:27was not used.
02:28Now we optimise it and we are using it for the same station or for the train itself.
02:33This is the new generation of the Dream Gates, we call it for the AFC.
02:37We developed these gates based on the best practices and lessons learned from our existing
02:42AFC gates.
02:43These gates use new technology which is called 3D cameras to detect the objects of the passengers,
02:49how they are moving inside or outside.
02:51It has LED lights so it will give a better image for the customer which gate they can
02:57use and they will take a proper decision in advance before they enter the station.
03:01Expo station is one of our iconic stations.
03:05It's totally different than other stations in the whole Dubai metro networks.
03:09The theme used here for interior design is the future.
03:13All the design, the future, it's abstracted from the future thinking to match the theme,
03:20one of the themes in Dubai Expo 2020.
03:23The total area of this station is 18,800 square metres, capacity of 29,000 passengers
03:31per hour.
03:32It means total 522,000 passengers every day.
03:37It has a large capacity to accommodate the demand on Dubai Expo using this station which
03:44we expect that the number of visitors using this station during the weekdays for Expo
03:51Dubai Dubai reaches to 35,000 visitors through Dubai Metro and on the weekends more than
03:5947,000 passengers a day.
04:03So this means 29% of the total visitors coming to Expo site.
04:21Thanks for watching.