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6/30/2023
Honolulu's Skyline — the nation's first fully autonomous urban passenger-rail system — begins passenger service today.
The first phase of Hawaii’s largest infrastructure project is an elevated rail line covering nearly 11 miles between nine stations from East Kapolei to Aloha Stadium.
Hitachi Rail manufactured the trains for Skyline; designed and constructed the subsystems; tested and commissioned the system for passenger safety; and will operate and maintain the system during passenger-service revenue, company officials said in a press release.
The overall fleet consists of 20 four-car trains, each equipped with the capacity to hold up to 800 passengers.
Passenger service to additional stations farther along the elevated rail line, such as to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, will begin in two additional phases over the coming years.
The full line will connect 19 stations along a 19-mile corridor on the south shore of Oahu. The system is entirely electrically powered. The transit-rail service was delivered on behalf of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation and Honolulu’s Department of Transportation Services; it marks the first new major transit-rail system to launch in the United States since 1993.