Saudi: Automated Free Train Service Inside Jeddah Airport Launched
The administration of King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah began on Monday operation of free train service to transport passengers inside its new terminal No. 1.
he domestic automated train service will carry the arriving and departing international passengers from the check-in zone to the international travel lounges zone and vice versa. This service was the first of its kind at the Kingdom’s airports, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The length of the automated conveyor track is 1000 meters with a capacity of 4000 passengers per hour, and it includes two stations and two tracks that work with 10 carriages, each with the capacity of 65 passengers, and the length of time for the travel between the two stations is 85 seconds, while the passenger’s maximum waiting time is 170 seconds.
