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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

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 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

  1. 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

 

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

 

  1. RBT – Regenerative Braking Technology 

 

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

 

  1.  Comfortable Air Conditioned coaches

 

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

 

  1.  Every KM (approx) – One Station 

 

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

  2. 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 %

 

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

 

  1. 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)


  • 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 %


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

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

    3. VGF stands for Viability Gap Fund 

    4. RBT – Regenerative Braking Technology

    5. AFC  stands for Automatic Fare Collection



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