Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) introduced that public transport modes — together with Dubai Metro, Dubai Tram, public buses, and marine transport — together with taxis and shared mobility choices similar to app-based automobiles, hourly leases, and on-demand buses, served roughly 395.3 million riders within the first half of 2025. This represents a 9% enhance in comparison with round 361.2 million riders throughout the identical interval in 2024. Common day by day ridership reached almost 2.18 million, up from roughly 1.98 million within the first half of 2024.
His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer, Director Common, Chairman of the Board of Govt Administrators of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), mentioned: “The continued progress in public transport ridership displays customers’ confidence within the system’s effectivity and the standard of companies supplied throughout all modes. We stay dedicated to delivering protected, comfy, and sustainable mobility options for each section of society.”
He added: “Dubai’s public transport community has undergone a serious transformation, pushed by superior infrastructure and a various vary of transit choices that now type the spine of mobility for residents and guests throughout the emirate. Because of this, the share of journeys utilizing public transport and shared mobility has elevated from 6% in 2006 to 21.6% in 2024.”
“We’re transferring ahead with a transparent imaginative and prescient to make public transport the popular alternative for day by day commuting by well increasing transport traces and networks, strengthening connectivity between stations and key locations, and providing versatile, inclusive mobility options,” Al Tayer revealed.
“The Building of Dubai Metro Blue Line is presently underway. Spanning 30 kilometres and comprising 14 stations, the road will serve 9 key districts with a mixed estimated inhabitants of 1 million residents, in alignment with the Dubai 2040 City Plan.”
Al Tayer continued: “Earlier, RTA signed 4 agreements to obtain 637 multi-sized buses compliant with the European low-emission commonplace ‘Euro 6,’ together with 40 electrical buses — the biggest and first fleet of its sort within the UAE. The buses will probably be delivered in 2025 and 2026 and can assist the geographic growth of the general public bus community throughout the emirate. In addition they align with our strategic goal to transform your entire public bus fleet to electrical and hydrogen-powered automobiles by 2050. This month, we accomplished the event of 16 bus passenger stations and 6 depots, as a part of our ongoing efforts to reinforce the standard of companies supplied to all customers.”
Al Tayer defined that Dubai Metro and taxis recorded the best share of ridership within the first half of this yr, with the Metro accounting for 36.5% and taxis for 26%. Public buses made up 24% of the entire.
He famous that Could registered the best month-to-month ridership, reaching 68.8 million, whereas figures for the opposite months ranged between 61 and 68 million.
“There was a 9% enhance in ridership in the course of the first half of this yr in comparison with the identical interval in 2024, a key indicator of the restoration in financial exercise throughout the emirate of Dubai, in addition to the effectiveness of the RTA’s methods and initiatives to encourage each residents and guests to make use of public transport and to supply various mobility choices all through the town,” he mentioned.
“Dubai’s public transport community, with all elements working in full integration, serves because the spine of mobility throughout the emirate. It has succeeded in fostering a optimistic shift in public attitudes towards mass transit throughout all segments of society,” he added.
Metro Stations
The variety of Dubai Metro customers throughout each the Pink and Inexperienced Strains reached roughly 143.9 million riders in the course of the first half of 2025. BurJuman and Al Rigga stations recorded the best ridership volumes, with BurJuman Station (serving each the Pink and Inexperienced Strains) registering 8.6 million riders, adopted by Al Rigga Station with 6.8 million.
Union Station (additionally serving each traces) got here subsequent with 6.6 million riders. On the Pink Line, Mall of the Emirates Station recorded the best ridership after Al Rigga, with 5.6 million riders, adopted by Burj Khalifa/Dubai Mall Station with 5.4 million, and Enterprise Bay Station with 5.3 million.
On the Inexperienced Line, Sharaf DG Station ranked first in ridership, with 5.1 million riders, adopted by Baniyas Station with 4.1 million, and Stadium Station with roughly 3.6 million.
Dubai Tram transported 4.9 million riders in the course of the first half of this yr, whereas public buses carried 95.7 million riders. The full variety of customers of all marine transport modes reached 9.7 million.
Shared mobility companies, together with app-based automobiles, hourly leases, and on-demand buses, served 37.6 million riders. In the meantime, taxi companies in Dubai transported 103.5 million riders in the course of the first half of the yr.
Built-in Community
RTA’s strategic and operational plans are based on the precept of integration throughout all tiers of public transport and shared mobility, aiming to make sure seamless and environment friendly motion all through the emirate.
These plans embrace the event and growth of street networks and the general public transport system in all its elements, together with the metro, tram, buses, marine transport, first and last-mile options, and shared mobility, in addition to the enhancement of pedestrian and biking infrastructure and the connectivity between them.
In addition they contain the development of sensible visitors and transport programs to optimise the effectivity and utilisation of roads and public transport, alongside the implementation of insurance policies that encourage the general public to scale back reliance on personal automobiles and shift in the direction of different transport choices, together with public and shared mobility.
These efforts are designed to repeatedly strengthen the position of public transport inside the wider mobility ecosystem and assist the Authority’s strategic aims to boost the share of journeys made utilizing public transport and shared mobility to 25% by 2030.