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SYSTRA has supported India’s economic capital since 2007 in the design and construction of its metro network. The Group has provided a wide range of expertise at all project stages.
With a population of over 18 million, Mumbai is one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world. It is home to activities that are vital to India, accounting for more than 25% of industrial production, 40% of maritime transactions and 70% of the financial activity of the entire country.
Since 2007, SYSTRA has been working with the city to provide a metro network that meets the needs of its population. Line 1 is a perfect illustration of the expertise of our Group, which was responsible for its design until it was commissioned in 2014, and which has deployed the patented U-shaped viaduct solution for rapid construction with frugal use of concrete at the best possible cost.
SYSTRA is currently involved in the construction of five other metro lines in Mumbai:
- Lines 2B, 3 and 4, which are due to come into service in 2021 and 2022. We have been involved from the preliminary design through to the detailed design, and then in supervising the civil engineering for the contractors.
- Lines 5 and 9, for which civil engineering supervision was assigned to us in 2019 as General Consultant.
In all, SYSTRA is involved in the design of 111 stations and 126.8km of metro in Mumbai, representing almost 40% of the total 337km that the city plans to have by 2026. This network is set to become one of the busiest in the world.
FOCUS: Brand identity of the Mumbai metro designed by systra
In 2019 and 2020, SYSTRA signed a single visual identity charter for all the metro’s stations. This unified and standardised signage will benefit both passengers and operators, enabling Mumbai to count on one of the most efficient metros in the world.
Mumbai’s metro stations now have a single visual identity. The design assignment had one main objective: to make passenger journeys more fluid by standardising the organisation of signage and equipment.
For this project SYSTRA was lead consultant and worked with consultancy partners Design Orb and Sarg Design Studio. The assignment completed by our teams in France and India was called ‘branding designs of station’ and includes the visual chart of the metro (official logo and brand), the graphic design of the signalling, the design of equipment in the stations (including typographies and pictograms), and the official colours of each metro line including their extensions.
