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MIA Mover

• Automated people-mover between MIA and the MIC
• Benefits air travelers as well as workers commuting into MIA
• Will ease of passenger traffic at terminal curb-fronts and on roads in and out of MIA

The MIA Mover is a light-rail people-mover system operating between Miami International Airport (MIA) and the two major structures of the Miami Intermodal Center (MIC), the Rental Car Center (RCC) and the Miami Central Station (MCS). The MIA Mover is Miami-Dade County's contribution to the MIC Program; it will be built and operated by the Miami-Dade Aviation Authority (MDAD). The Florida Department of Transportation is responsible for its guideway foundations and construction of its station at the MIC. The MIC Station has a completion date of 2008, and the MIA Mover will be operational in 2010.

The MIA Mover system will have two stations. The MIA Station will be located on the third level between the Flamingo and Dolphin Parking Garages at the airport; it will connect with the terminals automated walkways. The MIC Station will be located at the fourth level of the Rental Car Center (RCC) between the RCC's Customer Service Lobby and the Miami Central Station, via an elevated pedestrian walkway. Its dual elevated guideways span 1.25 miles, allowing trains to travel in both directions. Its approximate path runs east from the MIA Station through to Central Boulevard and on to NW 21st Street, curving north into the MIC Station, directly above the MIC Terminal Access Roadways.

The MIA Mover is a vital component of the MIC Program because it is an intermodal connector. It is a rail line that will link the airport to Amtrak, Tri-Rail and Metrorail, upon completion of the MIC-Earlington Heights Extension Project. It will serve the growing number of air passengers using MIA, which totaled 32.5 million in 2006, who rent vehicles or choose to use public transportation to reach their destination. It will also provide transportation to the MDAD, cargo and airline workers commuting into MIA everyday, MIA accounts for approximately one out of six jobs in the County.

As part of the MIC Program's decongestion strategy regarding the roads in and around the airport, rental car shuttles will be eliminated and replaced by the MIA Mover. Because the RCC will open to the public before the MIA Mover is operational, an interim consolidated bus service will be used to transport passengers between the airport and the RCC.

It is estimated that once the MIA Mover is operational, 30% of current vehicular traffic will be removed from the roadways and passenger traffic at the terminal curb-fronts will also be reduced.

FDOT's has already built the guideway foundations and the 30,000 square foot MIC Station will be built as part of the RCC construction. In addition, FDOT has contributed $50 million towards its cost. Visit the Financing section of this site for more information.