The Route 2020 project confirms Dubai's commitment to provide citizens and visitors with a metro network and transit system oriented towards greener and smarter mobility. The trains offer an excellent travel experience with a high level of comfort for passengers, thanks to wide walkways, doors and windows, and three specific areas for the Silver, Family and Gold classes. Ecological, the train is equipped with an electric braking system, LED lighting and innovative solutions for reducing energy consumption. An ambitious plan that assumes a more significant and strategic value also in response to emergency measures related to the global pandemic.
Thales Italia is part of Thales consortium, the official supplier of the Metro's technological systems. Thales' equipped the Route 2020 with a state-of-the-art driverless train signalling technology as well as integrated supervision, telecommunications, passengers' services, security and automated fare collection systems and smart gates with smart features.
With a strategic function in this ambitious project, Thales Italia was appreciated for the excellent work done in record time and ensured a safer, more modern and interactive train travel experience.
Thanks to the development of cutting-edge solutions for supervision and control, communication, safety, public information and video broadcasting, Thales has updated and improved all systems already in operation, transparently for operators and passengers, avoiding any interruption to metro operation service. A radio infrastructure for broadband data transmission allows a real-time vision of on-board cameras and broadcasting of high-quality advertising videos and information.
Alongside with Thales, Discovery Reply provided the integrated hardware and software structures of the DVVR - Digital Voice and Video Recording System. The Digital Asset Management Platform provides the major features and also combines third-party components. The DVVR system integrates Tetra and Telephone Recording Solution, as well as SIP, Public Announcement and CCTV media events to offer a central, multi-source audio-video incident management capability to the Operators of the subway Control Center. This assures record levels of reliability, comfort and safety to the around 650,000 passengers carried every day.