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Project Type Light rail systemLocation Auckland New ZealandThe Auckland Light Rail project is a proposed light rail network to be built in Auckland New Zealand. The project is being developed by NZ Transport Agency along with its partners Auckland Council Auckland Transport and HLC. Auckland Light Rail will create an integrated public transport system by connecting different modes of transportation in the city including light and heavy rail as well as buses and ferries. The light rail network is being developed to support the countrys growing population which is expected to reach two million by 2030. A sum of 1.8bn has been committed by the Government of New Zealand for the project under the Auckland Transport Alignment Project ATAP which is supported by the Government Policy Statement GPS on Transport. Auckland Light Rail will act as a companion project to the City Rail Link CRL project which is a twin-tunnel underground rail link below Auckland city centre. It will become New Zealands first light rail project once operational by 2028.The Auckland Light Rail network will run from the city centre to Mangere Onehunga and Auckland Airport. It also involves a light rail corridor from the City Centre to Northwest Auckland. The first phase of the project will involve the construction of a 23km-long line between City Centre and Mangere CC2M while City Centre to North-west line will be developed in the next phase. The CC2M line will connect Queen Street in Aucklands city centre Dominion Road Mount Roskill Onehunga and Mangere to Auckland Airport. The network will link Wynyard Quarter and Auckland city centre with the Isthmus suburbs while passing through 13 stations. It will run between SH 20 state highway and Wynyard Quarter via Dominion Road. The proposed City Centre to North-west line is expected to follow Highway 16 between the city centre and Kumeu Huapai. Additional route alternatives for the track are still being assessed and will be selected based on the current SH16 state highway corridor land usage growth of the north-west area and the overall proposed transport network. The light rail section up to Mt Roskill is expected to be built in four years while the lines to the airport and West Auckland will be completed in ten years. The light rail network to the North Shore will be constructed in the next decade.The project incorporates a utilities clash detection interactive model which is a new automatic system to detect clashes. It was developed by Arup by applying a machine-learning algorithm to the system that consolidates asset information of existing utilities into a common data environment for reducing the number of clashes on the proposed route alignment.Design standards being incorporated for the project include Te Aranga Design Principles Auckland Design Manual Roads and Streets Framework RASF and Auckland Transports Traffic Design Manual TDM.The project wil
