Transport in Dubai
Because of the growing population, commuters in Dubai experience a high amount of traffic congestion.
The government has invested heavily in the Dubai's road infrastructure, although this has not kept pace with the increase in the number of vehicles.
The construction contract for the project was given to Dubai Rapid Link (DURL),[8] a consortium led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, in 2005.
Seven monorails are also slated to be constructed to help feed the Dubai Metro, connecting various places such as Dubailand, the Palm Jumeirah and other districts the main track.
Dubai has a very large bus system run by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA).
The bus fleet consists almost entirely of low floor European-made, air-conditioned buses by Neoplan, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Solaris, VDL and Optare.
In August 2019, the Road and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that a new night bus service (runs from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.) will be launched, along with 11 more routes that will be enhanced in terms of timings and connections.
The Dubai Trolley is a 4.6 km (2.9 mi) tram service that was planned to serve the area around the Burj Khalifa.
This tram service runs 14.5 kilometres (9.0 mi) along Al Sufouh Road from Dubai Marina to the Palm Jumeirah.
The planning and construction of the Dubai Tram was undertaken by a consortium of Alstom, Besix and Parsons.
Running for 20 h each day, it will take only 30 min to ride the entire length of the system The Dubai Tram uses Alstom Citadis 402s.
This recently invented method, also referred to as Alimentation par Sol or "Aesthetic Power Supply" (APS), is currently used in Bordeaux, France.
In June 2010, the consortium led by France's Alstom and the local/Belgian Belhasa Six Construct stopped work on the estimated $1.1bn Al-Sufouh tram project in Dubai because of irregular payments from the project client, Dubai's Roads & Transport Authority (RTA).
The monorail connects the Palm Jumeirah to the mainland, with a planned further extension to the Red Line of the Dubai Metro.
One of the more traditional means of getting across Dubai Creek between Bur Dubai and Deira is on abras, small boats that ferry passengers across the Creek between stations in Bastakiya and Bani Yas Road, for a nominal charge of 1 UAE dirhams.
[19] A third terminal, which fully supports the new Airbus A380, was opened in October 2008 and doubled the airport's capacity.
[21] Since 2013 only a handful of airlines operate out of Al Maktoum International Airport in terms of passenger services.
When Emirates Airline receives the Boeing 777-200LR aircraft—part of its November 2005 order for forty-two 777s—it will be able to offer direct flights to nearly any major city in the world.
The airline has also placed an order for 45 of Airbus's A380 superjumbo double-decker aircraft, the largest of which has a capacity of 641 passengers.
