doi:10.3850/978-981-08-6396-8_P135

ABSTRACT

The City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii (the City) is engaged in the design and construction of a new 32 km. (20 mi.) driverless light metro rail project with a total estimated cost of US$5.4 billion. The line will run from the suburban community of Kapolei through the downtown urban core and beyond to the Ala Moana Center which is immediately east of Waikiki. The project is being constructed in an all-elevated configuration on pre-cast segmental viaducts except for a short surface section where the revenue line interfaces with the project’s Maintenance and Storage Facility (MSF). There will be 21 stations on the line, all but one of which are also constructed on the elevated guideway. The stations are designed to accommodate 4-car light metro trainsets. The individual cars are anticipated to be about 19 meters in length (60 feet) and initial service will be provided with semi-permanently married units of two car trains incorporating a wide gangway between cars. Due to its fully automated configuration, the City anticipates running an operating headway of no more than 3 minutes between trains in the peak hours. The required ultimate line capacity for the system is 15,000 passengers daily in the peak hour past the peak point in each direction (PPHPD). Total daily ridership is anticipated to serve approximately 116,000 daily passengers.

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