MIA e Train

The MIA e Train is one of three automated people mover systems operating at Miami International Airport (along with the Skytrain and the MIA Mover). The MIA e Train connects the satellite building of Concourse E (which contains gates E20-E33) with the rest of Concourse E (Gates E2-E11) which is connected to the main terminal. The system opened in 2016 replacing an earlier system and was built at a cost of $87 million.

MIA e Train
Overview
Status	Operating
Locale	Miami International Airport
Stations	2
Service
Type	People mover
Services	1
Rolling stock	6 Leitner-Poma MiniMetro vehicles
History
Opened	1980 (rebuilt 2016)
Technical
Character	Serves Concourse E
Highest elevation	Elevated
Route map Legend Gates MIA e Train Gates E20–E33 Concourse E Satellite Skytrain Station 4 D40–D60 0E2–E11 Concourse E Maintenance facility Station 3 D26–D39 Concourse F Concourse G Concourse H Station 2 D20–D25 Concourse J Station 1 D1–D19 SR 953 Le Jeune Road Rental car center Miami Intermodal Center MIA Mover Metrorail Orange Line to Dadeland South Tri-Rail to Mangonia Park This diagram: view talk edit

Operation

The MIA e Train consists of two three-car cable-driven MiniMetro trains developed by Leitner-Poma (unlike the Skytrain and MIA Mover which use Mitsubishi Crystal Mover vehicles). The two trains run on parallel independent guideways and shuttle back and forth between the two stations.^[1]

History

The MIA e Train opened in 2016 and replaced an earlier system that was built in 1980.^[2] The original system, which did not have an official name, was built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, whose transportation division is now owned by Bombardier Transportation. It was Westinghouse's second airport people mover system in Florida, after the Tampa International Airport People Movers. It operated in a similar fashion to the current system and used six Westinghouse C-100 vehicles in two three-car trains, which were also the same vehicles that originally operated on Downtown Miami's Metromover, which opened in 1986.^[3]

By the mid 2000s, the system was showing its age. On November 28, 2008, the train on the south guideway failed to stop at the main station and crashed into the wall at the end of the line, injuring seven people. After the crash, the system continued to operate with only the train on the north guideway with the south guideway taken out of service. When the system was replaced with the MIA e Train, the out-of-service south guideway was converted first with the north train and guideway being converted and replaced once the south train was operational.^[4]

See also

• List of airport people mover systems

References

1. "MIA's $87 Million Cable Car People Mover Is Now Open (Video)". The Next Miami. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
2. "History of Miami International Airport". Golldiecat's Airport-Page. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
3. Sproule, William J. "Airport Development with Automated People Mover Systems" (PDF). Retrieved 22 November 2021.
4. "Miami International Airport, Automated People Mover Train Collision with Passenger Terminal Wall" (PDF). NTSB. Retrieved 2 January 2019.