The Disney resort that gets its own tram network

Disney’s most high -tech theme carting will receive a tram network that will connect directly with the local airport, houses and hotels according to an announcement today.

Everyone who has visited Walt Disney World in Orlando knows that circumventing the vast site is not a walk in the park. The complex is in size comparable to San Francisco and it can often take an hour or more to come from one theme park to the other using the network of buses, boats, cable cars and monorails. Getting a tram from your front door directly to the Park Gates sounds like the stuff of fantasy, but it will soon be the reality in One Disney Resort.

The happy location is the city of Abu Dhabi in the middle, which in the coming years will be the home of the seventh resort of Disney. When the park was announced in May, Disney’s Chief Executive Bob Iger predicts that the “Resort in Abu Dhabi will be the most advanced and interactive destination in our portfolio.” The setting already looks like the background for a science fiction film.

Disneyland Abu Dhabi is on the Sandy Northern coasts of Yas Island, who is already home to a portfolio of leading theme parks and attractions. Unlike almost all his other parks, Disney will not possess or exploit his outpost in Abu Dhabi. Instead, it is built and run by Miral, the developer of Yas Island and the leading theme park operator of the Middle East.

Yas Island is comfortable the world’s most well-connected large resort, because it is home to luxury residential communities, schools, a business district, luxury hotels, a marina, a mega-shopping center with 370 shops, a beach, an F1 racing circuit and a golf course and a golf course in the Greater, all in the number of the number of the number of the number. They are based on some of the most famous brands in entertainment, including Seaworld, Ferrari and Warner Bros. No costs have been saved.

The parks are all indoors to protect visitors against the burning heat that rises north of 110 degrees in the summer. However, the buildings are anything but box -shaped.

Ferrari World can best be described as the shape of a starfish and a gigantic version of the shield of the automaker is on top of the slender silver and red scale. The towering entrance of Warner Bros. World is formed from the famous yellow logo of the studio, while one of the nearby hotels looks like an alien mother ship because the curved walls are dressed in color-changing LED lights. Rising sculptures of giants protrude from the sparkling sea and cared hedges along the flawless foaming sidewalks.

Abu Dhabi is already a hotest of high -tech transport with electric track -free trams and robotaxis without a driver who is already active in the city. However, the most enchanting solution was revealed today on the Global Rail Transport Infrastructure Exhibition and Conference.

During the event, the Abu Dhabi Transport Company (ADT) of the government announced the development of Tram Line 4 that will run through Yas Island and residential areas of the nearby district Al Raha that connects them with the city’s international airport. It should be a game changer, because Abu Dhabi does not have a metro system such as the neighboring Dubai and although many of Yas Island’s attractions are within walking distance, the uncomfortable climate makes this virtually impossible in the summer months.

The trams can wear a maximum of 600 passengers and will of course become air conditioning. They will be supplemented with the Urban Loop Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Self -driving system that made his debut last year at the Paris Olympic Games. It consists of POD-like vehicles that can each house of a maximum of 12 passengers, allowing them to transport up to 1500 passengers per hour. The pods will connect to the tram hubs that create a door-to-door transport network that connects neighborhoods with offices, cultural sites and attractions.

At the conference, ADT unveiled a map of the tram network that shows that it connects the most important sights of Yas Island, such as Yas Mall, Seaworld, Ferrari World, Warner Bros. World and Disneyland. The card, which can be seen hereUnveiled that Disneyland will be on the beach in the north of Yas Island.

This confirmed reports ThemeParxThe leading source of attraction construction photos. It noted That Disneyland Abu Dhabi was announced at a location described as the future site of the park. ThemeParx The buildings correlated in the background of the announcement photos with those on Google Maps and concluded that it was on the beach in northern Yas Island.

As this report has explained, it happens to be the largest area of ​​clear land on the coast of Yas Island, so it makes sense that the new park is there.

It reflects comments from Ben Crompton, managing partner at Abu Dhabi’s leading real estate agency Crompton Partners. He told the KHALEEJ TIMES Newspaper that the real estate prices on Yas Island have risen by 20% in the past year, which is in accordance with the information obtained by this author.

Crompton added that buyers do not pay a premium before the eye for Disneyland Abu Dhabi, but the question rose immediately after the project was announced. He explained that “the Disney -Themapark will probably open in North Yas, close to the Fahid bridge, but it is not yet confirmed. We know it will be on the water and so this area is one of the few beach locations that have been left on the popular island.”

With the tram network, visitors have to come to the airport in just over 20 minutes from Disneyland. They don’t have to wait long to do it as construction work is Reportedly Due to the beginning of next year, with the network that is expected to serve in 2030. Perhaps not coincidentally, that is around the time that Disneyland can open Abu Dhabi as this report revealed. That’s not all.

The tram network is also expected to connect to the upcoming Etihad rail hubs with which travelers can come from Abu Dhabi to Dubai in just 30 minutes. A total of 11 cities in the region will be on the railway line that will start with a standard speed service next year with Dubai with Abu Dhabi in 50 minutes. Every train has a capacity of 400 people with volume that is expected to hit 36.5 million people by 2030.

The urban loop, on the other hand, is expected to start tasting for the next six months. It can’t come fast enough.

Abu Dhabi Airports is said to be “feverish” to improve the connections of public transport between the airport, the center and other local areas according to Cheryl Chan, its strategic adviser in planning and development. “We wanted to connect the airport with the rest of Abu Dhabi and ADT that lets connectivity offer us,” she said The National. “At the moment in terms of public transport, there are only a few bus lines that come from the center.”

She added that “I don’t think the connectivity can happen to the airport until the technology has been proven. It is self -driven, so it is somewhat different from having a traditional Lighttrailline.” The National Reported that Abu Dhabi Airports is also considering implementing a PRT system for VIP customers and an automated people for future expansion.

Coincidentally, Disney World is also the home of an attraction called De Peoplemover in the futuristic Tomorrowland area of ​​his Magic Kingdom Park. Thanks to some high -tech sorcery, the attraction does not generate emissions. At ingenious repellent magnets under each ride car against those with opposite piles on the floor to push it along the tracks.

It is one of the many innovative forms of transport in Disney World and that is because Walt Disney himself realized that progress in this area could help to reduce pollution and congestion in cities. It makes the tram all the more relevant for Miral, especially because it is tailored to the net zero 2050 goals from Abu Dhabi, because it reduces emissions and improves accessibility. Miral started to look at it for a long time before it signed the deal with Disney earlier this year.

In 2018, at the opening of Warner Bros. World, Miral’s chairman Mohamed Al Mubarak told my colleague in an interview for the Daily Telegraaf That Yas Island was planning to implement a SkyTran network of slim pods that have been suspended from rails. “We are in discussion with our partners with regard to the system itself. It is now being tested and tested and very soon we will see some movement on that,” he said.

“It is a bit on a cable car. It will connect you from point to point, so if someone wants to go to Warner Bros at Ferrari World. He or if someone wants to go to the water park, he can do that. So it works as an attraction because you zoom in so quickly about these fantastic developments that look at these fantastic projects and it will take you from point A to B.

It wasn’t, although it didn’t want it to try. Skytran was closed in September 2023 after the majority shareholder, the Indian conglomerate Reliance, withdrew financing.

The tramplugt that gap in Abu Dhabi and is eventually expected to be extended to further residential areas. Saeed Salem Alsuwaidi, Chief Executive of ADT, emphasizes this vision of the recent conference, Saeed Salem, Saeed Salem, said That “mobility is no longer about reaching a station or a stop. It is about the entire trip – from houses and schools to workplaces and cultural destinations. Our goal is a single interconnected journey where passengers do not think of modes or transfers, just to reach their destination without friction.”

The KHALEEJ TIMES Added that ADT officials also said that the tram uniform ticketing, AI-driven demand management and predictive algorithms could have to make commuting more flexible and more efficient. It makes the tram a fairy tale for Miral, which is always looking to streamline its guest experience.

As Miral’s Chief Executive Mohamed Al Zaabi explained to me prior to the opening of Seaworld Abu Dhabi, one of the most important areas on which he focuses on the online booking system, because that is the start of the customer’s journey.

“We have built a system for the past five years that people can use to come to Yas Island. They can buy rooms plus theme park tickets plus formula One Plus access to the Louvre. That’s all in one experience. Can I add aviation tickets? Can I add a dinner experience? Can I add an experience and I can add their experience.

Additional reporting by Christian Sylt