Client
- World Bank WB
- Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities
Partner
- HTM Transport Consultant, Netherlands
Project Description
Preliminary engineering design and preparation of bidding documents for upgrading of Heliopolis tramway system and extending it to serve New Cairo with total length of 29 km.
Timeline
Feb 2011 – Sep 2014
MENA Rail Role
Prepared Engineering design for the LRT project including the following:
- Defined the status of Heliopolis Tram, goals, stakeholders, and the focus of the project.
- Assessed the principal system design options and recommended a preferred option.
- Designed the track alignment, energy supply &tram stations.
- Provided preliminary design of the maintenance depot.
- Prepared preliminary design for the rolling stock.
- Prepared preliminary design of the supporting systems (ticketing, signalling, communications, and traffic control system and safety devices).
- Prepared preliminary cost estimate for tram rolling stock and supporting Systems.
- Prepared Preliminary Design of Intersections Requiring Special Treatment and cost estimates for those intersections.
- Proposed improvements for the Associated Street and Traffic Management
- Prepared cost estimates (capital cost, maintenance, and operations)
- Estimated the annual operations and maintenance cost, expected revenues, and subsidy required for the system improvement.
- Prepared bidding documents.