Design and supervision services for the Qatar Education City People Mover System

 

Design and Supervision Services for Qatar Education City – People Mover System

A new tramway system has been designed and constructed to support the transition of Education City to a car-free campus. The people mover is an innovative and environmentally friendly mobility system that uses electric power without a catenary or third rail.

Location
Doha, Qatar
Client
Siemens WLL Head Office

Implementation period

2019 2020

Services

Design services include preparing alignment and layout drawings, verifying existing data for completeness and plausibility, aligning crossovers and turnouts, rehabilitating the existing sub-base, and preparing as-built plans and longitudinal sections.

Quality control and supervision

Organisation and supervision of defect rectification and rehabilitation, testing and commissioning, supervision of two track construction companies, coordination with a design consultant and surveying bureau, verification of design documents, inspection of materials (track components, concrete), and overall scheduling and coordination.

Length of line
approx. 12 km
Track Length
approx. 20.5 km (concrete track slab), on-street track approx. 16.4 km, open track formation approx. 4.1 km
Vehicles
Nineteen Avenio trams equipped with a hybrid energy storage system (HES).
Catenary-free operation between stations/stops
Eleven single crossovers, two scissor crossovers, 19 turnouts
Depot with approx. 3 km of track, including 23 turnouts
Design and Supervision Services for Qatar Education City – People Mover System