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Dubai Metro

Revision 2026-08-27-claims-and-sources · effective 2026-08-27

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 7 claims and 5 source dossiers.

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7: of 7 claims mapped
5: source dossiers
5: publication dates recorded
0: archives linked
0: exact locators
0: content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-a7b9d161f6ba2e08 quantitative

Dubai Metro opened on 9 September 2009 and was for years the world's longest driverless metro (Guinness, 2012)

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The RTA statement marking fifteen years dates the opening to 9 September 2009 and carries the Guinness recognition; Gulf News reports the same anniversary figures.
Caveat: A commercial record-keeper's award, not an engineering standard, and superseded since.

Claim 2 clm-af303b5ae4441479 quantitative

Its two GoA4 fully automated lines, Red and Green, run 89.6 km with 53 stations and no onboard drivers, controlled from a central operations centre

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The RTA anniversary statement gives the network length and station count for the Red and Green lines; Railway Gazette describes the network as driverless and automated.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Dubai Media Office / RTA (authority)
Railway Gazette (trade)

Claim 3 clm-662afa3e01e77440 quantitative

A 30 km Blue Line is under construction, due by 2029

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: Railway Gazette, 28 November 2023, on the formal launch of the Blue Line: a 30 km automated metro scheme.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Railway Gazette (trade)

Claim 4 clm-9bca6d0bb141fca4 quantitative

The Red and Green lines carried 275.4 million riders in 2024, up about 6% on 2023's 260.0 million (RTA annual ridership release, February 2025)

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: RTA's annual ridership release for 2024 breaks out the metro figure; the September 2024 anniversary statement carries the same 275.4 million.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Dubai Media Office — RTA 2024 ridership (authority)
Dubai Media Office / RTA (authority)

Claim 5 clm-6a61a5c5e280490c quantitative

RTA's February 2026 release puts 2025 at 294.7 million (+7%)

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: RTA's annual ridership release of 15 February 2026: the Red and Green lines carried 294.7 million riders in 2025, a 7% increase on 2024.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Dubai Media Office — RTA 2025 ridership: 802 million riders across public transport, shared mobility and taxis (15 February 2026)

Claim 6 clm-6e12cdc56c0b58df quantitative

Cumulative ridership since 2009 exceeds 2.4 billion, and the 99.7% punctuality RTA cites is a lifetime operations figure, not an annual metric

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The fifteen-year statement gives 2.4 billion riders since 2009 and 99.7% punctuality across the same period; Gulf News reports both in the same frame.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Dubai Media Office / RTA (authority)
Gulf News (press)

Claim 7 clm-f513a30356021723 quantitative

those 294.7 million rides are roughly one in three of the 802.1 million RTA counted across all its public transport, shared mobility and taxi services in 2025

Published field: lesson · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The February 2026 release gives 802.1 million riders in 2025 across public transport, shared mobility and taxis, against 747.1 million in 2024, with the metro's 294.7 million inside that total.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Dubai Media Office — RTA 2025 ridership: 802 million riders across public transport, shared mobility and taxis (15 February 2026)

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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7: of 7 claims mapped
5: source dossiers
5: publication dates recorded
0: archives linked
0: exact locators
0: content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator: Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), Dubai
Actor types: utility
Funding model: public
Funding description: Not recorded
Cost: Not recorded
Ownership: Not recorded
Decision rights: Not recorded
Exit conditions: Not recorded

5 source dossiers

Dubai Media Office / RTA (authority) mediaoffice.ae · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-5f828724135045ad
Publisher: Name not classified · mediaoffice.ae
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2024-09-08
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-27
Dossier created: 2026-08-29
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
RTA statement marking 15 years: 2.4bn riders, 275.4m in 2024, 99.7% punctuality.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-a7b9d161f6ba2e08
clm-af303b5ae4441479
clm-9bca6d0bb141fca4
clm-6e12cdc56c0b58df

Gulf News (press) gulfnews.com · 2 linked claims

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Stable source ID: src-e65e6b4588d2196e
Publisher: Name not classified · gulfnews.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2024-09-08
Updated: 2024-09-09
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-27
Dossier created: 2026-08-29
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Established-press coverage of ridership and punctuality figures.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-a7b9d161f6ba2e08
clm-6e12cdc56c0b58df

Railway Gazette (trade) railwaygazette.com · 2 linked claims

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Stable source ID: src-9772bf15ac115018
Publisher: Name not classified · railwaygazette.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2023-11-28
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-27
Dossier created: 2026-08-29
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Trade coverage confirming automated/driverless operation and the 30 km Blue Line extension.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-af303b5ae4441479
clm-662afa3e01e77440

Dubai Media Office — RTA 2024 ridership (authority) mediaoffice.ae · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID: src-19561bd88112f4d9
Publisher: Name not classified · mediaoffice.ae
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2025-02-02
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-27
Dossier created: 2026-08-29
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
RTA annual ridership release for 2024: 747.1 million riders across public transport, shared mobility and taxis, with the metro share broken out.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-9bca6d0bb141fca4

Dubai Media Office — RTA 2025 ridership: 802 million riders across public transport, shared mobility and taxis (15 February 2026) mediaoffice.ae · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-e1cf0af97608ca0e
Publisher: Name not classified · mediaoffice.ae
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2026-02-15
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-27
Dossier created: 2026-08-29
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
RTA annual ridership release for 2025, the carrying source for the 294.7 million metro figure: the Red and Green lines carried 294.7 million riders in 2025, up 7% on 2024, within a total of 802.1 million riders across public transport, shared mobility and taxis, against 747.1 million in 2024. Average daily ridership 2.2 million. BurJuman (17.8 million) and Al Rigga (13.8 million) were the busiest stations.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-6a61a5c5e280490c
clm-f513a30356021723

Known limits of this passport

Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.