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Automated Guideway Transit System (Denver International Airport)

people mover system at Denver International Airport

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ5259735 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Automated Guideway Transit System (AGTS) is a 24/7 people mover system operating within Denver International Airport (DIA). The system opened along with the airport itself in 1995 and efficiently connects the distant concourses with the main terminal (named the Jeppesen Terminal).

History

The AGTS project was announced publicly in October 1992 at a cost of $84 million, and it opened with the airport on February 28, 1995. The initial system consisted of 16 cars that were paired together in groups of four to traverse the length of the tunnel. The vehicles were to ride on rubber wheels along a concrete track. The system was built by AEG Westinghouse, which was acquired by Bombardier Transportation in 2001 and in turn by Alstom in 2021.

Six more vehicles were added to the system by 1996, an additional five were added in 2001, an additional four in 2007, and an additional 26 in 2021 (16 of which are to replace the original vehicles from the airport’s opening and 10 additional vehicles were added to the system). Today, the fleet consists of 41 automated Innovia APM 100 vehicles, each of which has a maximum capacity of 100 passengers.

In late 2023, 26 new vehicles were added to the system. These vehicles were originally scheduled to be delivered by 2021, but due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on manufacturing, the delivery date was delayed to 2024.

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The public source identifies “Automated Guideway Transit System (Denver International Airport)” as people mover system at Denver International Airport. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Automated, Guideway and Transit.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1992, 2001, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Automated, Guideway and Transit providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Automated Guideway Transit System (Denver International Airport)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.