IDOM, a leading Spanish multi-national group providing consulting, engineering, and architecture services, has been awarded a key contract by NEOM, the developer of a mega futuristic city in Saudi Arabia, for a new water mobility paradigm.
As per the agreement, IDOM will collaborate with NEOM on the design of a waterborne transport network featuring a zero-emission fleet.
The company said in a statement that NEOM, the sustainable regional development in Northwest Saudi Arabia, is an accelerator of human progress and a vision of what a New Future might look like. It will include hyperconnected, cognitive cities, ports and enterprise zones, research centers, sports and entertainment venues, and tourist destinations.
According to the Spanish company, “The residents and visitors can then move sustainably and efficiently, with the highest standards of comfort, around a region with extensive coastal areas on the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba, and numerous islands.”
IDOM is putting its extensive knowledge and experience in the field of port and maritime transport at the service of this project, one of the most impressive and exciting in the world, as per the statement.
According to IDOM, the upcoming project NEOM is the sustainable regional development in Northwest Saudi Arabia and an accelerator of human progress and a vision of what a New Future might look like.
NEOM has established core principles to deliver a sustainable multi-modal mobility system, such as on-demand and connected services, active and micro-mobility, the use of electric and zero-emission vehicles, which will be fueled by a solar-powered grid, as well as autonomous shared mobility and public transit.
