HMR - Hyderabad Metro Rail

HMR - Hyderabad Metro Rail

 

 

•  Pride of Hyderabad city

 

• World’s largest Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project in the Metro Rail sector.

• An MRTS – Mass Rapid Transport Project

• An integrated urban transport development project with intermodal connectivity and convenient skywalks  - for seamless commuting across busy Hyderabad city.

• Gauge: Standard Gauge 1435 mm (whereas Broad gauge -1676 mm is used in Indian Railways) 

• Standard Gauge is also called a uniform gauge, UIC gauge, International gauge, etc.  60 % of the World Railway tracks are operated in Standard gauge only.

• Maximum capacity per 3 car train  - 965  (Each car – 40 seats)

• Brand Mantra of HMR – “My City, My Metro, My Pride”

 

Why Metro in Hyderabad city

 

•   The population stands at 1 Crore +.  Projected to touch 1.36 Crores by 2020

 

• Currently, 50 lakhs personalized vehicles ply on Roads with the addition of 5 lakh vehicles every year. 

 

• 80 Lakh motorized trips – every day.  Out of which 32 Lakh trips are made by Public transport system i.e., Local Trains & Buses.  The rest of the 48 Lakh trips are made by personal vehicles leading to bottlenecks, high pollution levels & steep increase in fuel consumption

 

  

 

 

DBFOT –Design, Build, Finance, Opeation & Transfer

 

• 35 years (5 years construction + 30 years Operation)

 

• Can be extended to another 25 years

 

• After 35 years, the entire structure incl: Track, Corridors, Station Buildings etc, Rolling stock, Malls, etc should be transferred to State Government i.e., Telangana. 

• Central Metro Act extended to Hyderabad city. 

 

Salient features

 

1. Three Corridors -68 KM 

 

2. Corridor 1 – Red Line   - From Miyapur to LB Nagar -29 KM

 

3. Corridor 2 – Green Line – From MGBS – Mahatma Gandhi Bus Stand to JBS – Jubilee Bus Stand – 11 KM

 

4. Corridor 3 – Blue Line – Nagole to Raidurg – 28 KM

 

5. Concessionaire (the holder of a concession or grant, especially for the use of land or commercial premises or for trading rights.) is LTMRHL – Larsen & Toubro Metro Rail Hyderabad Limited.  It is an SPV – Special Purpose Vehicle

 

6. Eco-friendly, fully automated, and best-in-class transportation, reduction of carbon footprints

 

7. RBT – Regenerative Braking Technology 

 

8. CBTC – Communication Based Train Control technology – virtually one train can speak to another train  

 

9.  Comfortable Air Conditioned coaches

 

10. HMRL – Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited, a Govt of Telangana enterprise 

 

11.  Every KM (approx) – One Station 

 

12. Automatic ticket vending machines - reducing waiting time in queues and counters.

13. Automatic fare collection system - hassle-free entry and exit from the stations.

 

 

 

Partners 

 

• Operations & Maintenance – Keolis  (Paris-based organization- World leaders in public transport business)

 

• Rolling Stock (Coaches)  - Hyundai Rotem of South Korea

• Communications – Thales, Portugal

• Signal & Train Control – Thales, Canada

• Ballast less Track – Tata Corus (France), Voest Alpine (Austria) & Vossloh (Germany)

• Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) – Samsung (South Korea)

• Elevators & Escalators – OTIS (USA)

 

Green Metro

 

• Reduce Carbon footprint by -10 thousand tons of CO2,  200 tonnes of volatile organic compounds & 12 tonnes of particulate matter are eliminated

 

• Efficient power consumption

 

• Rainwater harvesting – One lakh liters of water per day is recycled

 

• One ton of waste paper per year is recycled. This saves 23 trees per year. 

 

Financials:

 

• Total Estimated Cost – Rs. 14.132 Crores

• Actual Completed Cost - Rs. 18,411 Crores ( 17,207 Crores by L & T and 1,204 Crores by Government as part of VGF.

 

• Central Govt support through VGF – Viability Gap Fund – Rs. 1458 Crores. But given so far 1204 Crores

• Amount spent by State Govt. i.e., Telangana  - Rs. 3000 Crores

 

• 2020-21 FY loss - Rs.1,767 Crores  (Cumulative loss Rs. 3,279 Crores)

 

• Debt element as on date - By L&T  - 13,252 Crores  ( Interest rate 9.1 %) 

 

• Yearly Interest charges are borne by L & T - Approx 1200 Crores. 

• Revenue Model  - TOD – Transit Oriented Development

 

1. Passenger fares – 50 %

 

2. Retail Malls (as TOD) -40 %  (57 acres given by State Govt on lease basis)

 

3. Advertisements & stalls at Stations – 5%

 

 

Status of Metro trains – World over

• Approx 200 Metro Trains in Cities worldwide

• Out of that, only 4 are in profits (Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore & Hongkong) 

Prominent features of Rolling Stock

• 3 Cars Train set (can be extendable to 6 Cars Train set)

• Maximum Design Speed – 90 kmph

• Maximum Operating Speed – 80 kmph

• Average Speed – 33 kmph

• Dwell/Halt time at Station – 20 Seconds 

• Energy regeneration during electro-dynamic braking 

Timeline 

• Conceived in 2007 (HMR formed)

 

• Agreement with L&T – 2010

• First Corridor started – in 2017 (28th November)

• Last Corridor started – 2020 (7th February)

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• Key takeaways for MCQ ( General Knowledge)

• 1. PPP stands for Public Private Partnership 

  2. World’s Largest PPP project in Metro Rail sector  - Hyderabad Metro

  3. MRTS stands for Mass Rapid Transport System

  4. Standard gauge - 1435 MM - Also called Uniform Gauge or International Gauge

  As on 31.03.2017  - Indian Railway's position

  Gauge	Width	Route KM	Percentage
  Broad	1676 mm	61680	92 %
  Metre	1000 mm	3479	5 %
  Narrow	762 mm &  610 mm	2209	3 %
  	Total	67368	100 %

  
  

  5. DBFOT stands for Design, Build, Finance, Operation & Transfer

  6. CBTC stands for Communication Based Train Control technology – virtually one train can speak to another train  

  7. VGF stands for Viability Gap Fund 

  8. RBT – Regenerative Braking Technology

  9. AFC  stands for Automatic Fare Collection

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