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Dubai is already home to the largest driverless rail system in the world and now the emirate plans to broaden its train lines further. Zawaya.com reported that the rail network in Dubai is set to be extended to cover 250 km by the next decade - a significant increase on the 75 km it currently serves.

Canadian firm in talks to supply trains for the proposed 1,200km railway network project. Dubai Trains and aircraft manufacturer Bombardier is in active talks with Etihad Rail (erstwhile Union Railway) to supply trains for the proposed 1,200km railway network project, through its transport unit, Bombardier Transportation, according to a top Bombardier official.

A total of around 10,000km of railway that includes national railway projects, metro, monorail and tramways have set the mass transit system rolling in the GCC countries at an estimated cost of $106 billion. The projects, which are currently at various stages of planning, construction and implementation, are being showcased at the 59th UITP Congress and Mobility & City Transport Exhibition.

Future urban transportation will largely be dominated by electric mobility, stated Hans-Jörg Grundmann, chief of the Siemens Mobility Division. Siemens will also be showing its all-electric omnibus concept for the first time at a UITP Exhibition.

Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the Middle East, plans to open 10 more branches by the end of 2011 and soon will launch a new RTA card with Nol products loaded, Head of Group Marketing Vikram Krishna said. Emirates NBD will soon announce a new RTA card, which will come with loaded Nol application.

Aim is to connect two airports by rail; Green Line to be operational by this year end. Dubai plans to extend the rail network to more than 250km from the current 75km by including tramways and more Metro lines by the next decade were revealed agains the backdrop of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) World Congress and Exhibition at the Dubai World Trade Centre

Gulf residents are far from closing the gap with their counterparts in North Africa and the Levant (NAL) when it comes to using public transport.

The launch of the second line of the Dubai Metro - the Green Line, has been delayed yet again. The line, which was originally slated to open in April 2010 and then postponed to August 2011, will now be operational in the last quarter of this year, according to the top executive of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA).

Pioneering the mass transit system in the region with the world’s largest driverless rail system, Dubai aims to extend the rail network further from the current 75km to over 250km by the next decade. The extensive network will include tramways as well as more Metro lines, one of which would connect the Dubai International Airport with Al Maktoum International Airport in Jebel Ali.

Local Arabs – who make up some 20 per cent of Dubai’s population – can also be reluctant to mix with the Indians, Pakistanis and Filipinos who make up Dubai’s working class, according to Mohamed Mezghani, head of the Middle East office of UITP, the international public transport association.