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Indianapolis Automated People Mover
Indianapolis, Indiana
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Indianapolis Automated People Mover
This unique project may change the transit outlook for typical
American cities. For the first time in recent history, a privately
funded transit project entirely on a public right-of-way is being
rapidly built in the downtown area of Indianapolis based on a long-term
franchise agreement with the Mayor’s office: a public system
at no cost to taxpayers.
As the infrastructure typically accounts for a majority of the
system costs, under the private funding scenario, there was a need
to design and build a new kind of concrete guideway to meet the
new requirements of high aesthetics and performance at a lower cost
in comparison to other guideways built to date. The resulting guideway
is slim, simple, and elegant.
Jakes Associates, Inc. has conceived the project and has assisted
its client, Clarian Health (a medical conglomerate and major employer
in the City of Indianapolis) to develop and manage the project.
SDI, general contractor and technology provider for this project,
has designed the guideway which met the project criteria established
by Jakes Associates, Inc.
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Indianapolis project is a demonstration of how easily it is to implement
innovative, elevated guideway People Mover systems in the most typical
American urban environment in comparison to all other guideway and
rail transit modes. Since the first concrete pour on May 24, 2001,
all eighty-seven foundations and eighty-five columns, as well as
the 11th Street lane widening have been completed. Superstructure
installation is now in progress: eighty-two straight beams and sixty-three
curved beams have been cast. Twenty-seven beams have been erected
on Senate Avenue. The erection of horizontal beams, three fully
enclosed stations and overhead walkways is in progress.
The construction activities have proceeded without any complaints
from neighborhoods, adjacent historic districts, businesses, schools,
or authorities. A benefit of the slim and light guideway design,
and smart erection techniques. The total cost of the project is
expected to be $40 million.
Project Credits
Owner: Clarian Health
Engineer: Jakes Associates, Inc.
Architect: Ratio Architects
Contractor: Schwager Davis, Inc. (SDI)
Concrete Supplier: Rinker
Precaster: American Precast |