SYSTRA recently won a major design engineering contract in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) which is to include the drawing up of the tender documentsand is concerned with the creation of a light urban transportation.
That system will consist of two metro lines: the green line running east to west from the airport to the sea port via the centre of town, and the red line, along a north - south axis, parallel to the coast. Both lines will total 50 km or so, to which will be added a circular line of the tramway or single rail type called the CBD Circulator, over 8 km, which will service
a densely urbanised sector in the centre of town.
SYSTRA is partnered by Dar al Handasah, a Lebanese and Egyptian engineering company which is well established in Dubai, RSM Salustro-Reydel, AREP (an SNCF subsidiary) and its own subsidiary, MVA.
This is an ambitious project with a budget of over one billion euros of works and installations by 2017. It is the first railway project in the Emirate region and will therefore provide a showcase for SYSTRA's know-how, which will be closely scrutinised in the region's capital cities.