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Renting a car at MIA just got easier!
 MIA Mover - Photo by Brooke Studio Miami International Airport now gets passengers from the runway to the roadway faster than ever before with the MIA Mover, a 1.25-mile-long automated people mover system between MIA and the Miami Rental Car Center that opened to the public on September 9.
With a top speed of 40 miles per hour, the MIA Mover has the capacity to transport more than 3,000 passengers per hour free of charge directly between MIA and the Rental Car Center's customer service lobby just east of Le Jeune Road. MIA passengers simply exit their concourse and take elevators to MIA's third level moving walkway, which quickly connects them to the MIA Mover. |
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The MIA Mover completely replaces the Rental Car Center shuttle bus service previously in operation, eliminating approximately 1,400 shuttle bus trips per day and reducing carbon emissions from MIA's roadways by 30 percent. The MIA Mover's MIA Station is also the first mass transit project in Miami-Dade County to be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold-certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The Rental Car Center, a 3.4-million-square-foot, four-level facility that houses 16 major rental car companies, was completed by the FDOT on July 2010 and serves an average of 16,000 airport customers daily. |
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The MIA Mover and Rental Car Center are two components of FDOT's Miami Intermodal Center (MIC) project, slated for total completion in 2013. AirportLink, a 2.4-mile extension from the MIC to Miami-Dade Transit's Metrorail system, is scheduled for completion this Summer. In 2013, the MIC's 16.5-acre Miami Central Station is scheduled to open as Miami-Dade County's first ground transportation hub, providing passengers connections to services such as: Miami-Dade Transit's Metrobus; Tri-Rail, a heavy-rail system that serves Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties; Amtrak; Greyhound; taxi and other forms of private transportation. |
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For Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about MIA's Metrorail Station, Metrobus services, Miami Intermodal Center and Miami Central Station, click here.
Related:
MIA Mover Press Release
In the News:
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October 13, 2011 |
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| The MIA Mover speeds customers from the terminal to the rental care center, reducing congestion and reducing air pollution -- another step forward in the airport's multi-billion dollar capital improvement program.
MIA's Greg Chin is Kevin Wynn's guest on "County Connection" More
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October 2011 |
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The MIA Mover, which officially opened at Miami International Airport (MIA) in early September, is a $270 million, 1.25-mile example of extending ground operations over streets and highways into the surrounding community to eventually connect with regional mass transit. “With little room for expanded facilities on site, airports need access to additional parcels of land to service their passengers,” explains Ginger Evans, Parsons’ senior vice president and aviation division manager. “As airports pursue integrated planning and development with the larger cities they serve, people movers are an infrastructure asset that facilitates increased capacity and better passenger service.” Extending people movers over existing highways allows airports to “spread their wings,” Evans continues. “Having easy access to the airport from the other side of the highway facilitates the development of hotel rooms, other transportation connection links and related business development.”
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September 9, 2011 |
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José Abreu was 13 years old when he arrived in Miami in 1968 as a Cuban refugee, landing at Miami International Airport. Almost half a century later, on Thursday, Abreu was the center of attention, applause and recognition at the inauguration of the automatic train connecting the airport with the huge Miami Intermodal Center transportation facility east of MIA, one of the most expensive and complex projects in South Florida history.
The automatic train, similar to those that connect terminals at major airports, will replace the buses that rental-car companies have used to transport passengers to the rental car center.
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September 8, 2011 |
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Miami international Airport has made it easier for tourists to get from the airport to where they can rent a vehicle. “From now on people will be able to go directly to the rental car center in a much more efficient way,” said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez during the inauguration of the new MIA Mover, a new light rail people mover which operates between the airport and the Miami Intermodal Center (MIC), which is about a mile and quarter away. “From plane to train to car that’s basically it,” said airport spokesman Marc Henderson. With a top speed of 40 miles per hour, the MIA Mover can make the trip to the Rental Car Center at the MIC in about three minutes. “It’s a nice ride, it’s a great view of downtown Miami and you see how beautiful this place really is,” Gimenez said. With a top speed of 40 miles per hour, the MIA Mover has the capacity to transport more than 3,000 passengers per hour free of charge directly between MIA and the Rental Car Center’s customer service lobby just east of Le Jeune Road. MIA passengers simply exit their concourse and take elevators to MIA’s third level moving walkway, which quickly connects them to the MIA Mover. It also completely replaces the Rental Car Center shuttle bus service previously in operation, eliminating approximately 1,400 shuttle bus trips per day and reducing carbon emissions from MIA’s roadways by 30 percent. The system’s MIA Station is also the first mass transit project in Miami-Dade County to be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold-certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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September 8, 2011 |
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The MIA Mover is up and running at the Miami International Airport. It's a 1.25-mile-long elevated people mover system that connects passengers from the airport to the rental car center. "It makes it so much easier for our passengers, train to plane to car. It's just that simple," said Marc Henderson, of Miami-Dade Aviation."It's a nice ride. You have a great view of downtown Miami," said Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez. The electric-powered mover can transport 3,000 passengers per hour and is eco-friendly, reducing fuel emissions by 15 percent."Our visitors always look for easy. They want to be able to get in after a long flight, get their bags, get out and enjoy where they are going," said Henderson. The new system will also help with traffic around the airport as it replaces the shuttle bus service. "This way, passengers come directly to the rental car center. It will be much better for them, much better for us, and it's just another step in the transformation of this airport," Gimenez said. The MIA Mover can travel 40 mph and takes three minutes to get to the airport from the rental car center. It will be up and running Friday.
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| September 8, 2011 | Photo gallery: MIA Mover opens at Miami International Airport  |
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Miami International Airport on Thursday unveiled its MIA Mover, an elevated people mover that will transport travelers from the airport terminal to the rental car center. The mover travels 1.25 miles from the third floor of the airport terminal, across LeJeune Road to the MIA Rental Car Center, which opened in July 2010 and houses operations for 16 rental car companies. It can transport up to 3,000 passengers an hour, features eight train cars and will help reduce airport fuel emissions by 15 percent. The project created 1,000 jobs and was completed on time and under budget by $5 million, which will be returned to Miami-Dade County, said Gilberto Neves, president and CEO of Odebrecht USA. The MIA Mover, Miami Central Station, rental car center and several highway improvements comprise the Miami Intermodal Center project, Miami-Dade County’s first transportation hub, which is being developed by the Florida Department of Transportation. FDOT began working on intermodal projects in 1989, before it was popular, said José Abreu, director of the Miami-Dade Aviation Department and a former FDOT employee. |
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September 7, 2011 |
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he Parsons–Odebrecht Joint Venture (POJV), in conjunction with the Miami–Dade Aviation Department, is pleased to announce the opening of the MIA Mover, the new 1.25-mile Automated People Mover (APM) at Miami International Airport (MIA). The inaugural celebration will take place on Thursday, September 8, 2011, at 10:30 a.m. Invited guests include state and county officials, as well as community and business leaders. Under a design-build contract, POJV constructed the MIA Mover guideway and stations and, through a subcontract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, installed the full turnkey operating system, including eight state-of-the-art Crystal Mover APM vehicles. The MIA Mover system links the airport with its nearby multimodal rail transportation center and consolidated rental car facility, known as the Miami Intermodal Center (MIC)—Miami–Dade County’s own “grand central station.” The MIC is the southern terminus for multicounty Tri-Rail rail-car service. “This is yet another successful milestone for Miami–Dade County, MIA, POJV, and its partners,” said José Abreu, Director of Miami–Dade County’s Aviation Department, which operates MIA. “Moving people is what we are all about, and today we are even closer to the day when the traveling public can move seamlessly among all forms of ground transportation, mass transit, and air travel.” |
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September 6, 2011 |
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A 1.25 mile long elevated people mover system, the MIA Mover, is scheduled to begin connecting passengers from the airport to the Miami Rental Car Centre (RCC) and the future Miami Intermodal Centre (MIC) on 9 September. The four-level RCC opened in July last year as the first phase of the MIC, and houses the operations of 16 major rental car companies.
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September 6, 2011 |
People Mover at Miami's Airport Set to Open |
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The MIA Mover, an elevated train opening Sept. 9 at Miami Airport, will transport passengers between the airport and the rental-car center. The four-level rental-car facility opened in July 2010 as the first phase of the Miami Intermodal Center. |
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August 2, 2011 |
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Parsons–Odebrecht Team Building Automated People Mover Miami International Airport’s (MIA’s) Automated People Mover (APM) system—the MIA Mover—has earned the nation’s top safety recognition—Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star status from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). This recognition will be a centerpiece of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT’s) Safety Awareness Expo in Miami on August 4. “This is outstanding recognition for MIA and our Parsons–Odebrecht JV partners, and it reflects a genuine commitment to workplace safety and health for all of our contract workers and employees,” said José Abreu, director of Miami–Dade County’s Aviation Department, which operates MIA. “We can all be very, very proud of this milestone achievement.”
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December 6, 2010 |
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The first of eight Japanese-built cars for an automated train that will link Miami International Airport to a nearby transit hub arrived at MIA Monday and was immediately hoisted onto the elevated guideway the system will use once it starts operating next year. MIA Mover, which resembles the futuristic Skytrain automated people mover now operating at MIA's North Terminal, is expected to start running by next September linking MIA to the transit hub now being built just east of MIA. On hand to witness the arrival of the first Mitsubishi-supplied car was José Abreu, head of the Miami-Dade Aviation Department which joined forces with the Florida Department of Transportation to finance the more than $260-million MIA Mover system. ``This is one of the most important milestones in the MIA Mover project to connect MIA to the MIC,'' said Abreu, who before taking over the county's aviation department helped guide the MIC to fruition when he worked for the Florida Department of Transportation, first as head of the Miami office and later as statewide secretary.
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