Capacity:
Current  Line capacity for the Red Line, in 2011:12.123 passenger per hour per direction
Ultimate Line capacity for the Red Line: 21,838 passenger per hour per direction 
Current  Line capacity for the Green Line, in 2011:9010 passenger per hour per direction 
Ultimate Line capacity for the Green Line: 25720 passenger per hour per direction 

Minimum Headway:
Current headway for the Red line: 240 sec in peak hours and 480 sec. during off peak hours
Ultimate Minimum design headway for the Red Line: 90 sec
Current headway for the green line: 360sec. during peak hours and 480 sec. during off peak hours.
Ultimate Minimum design headway for the Green Line: 90 sec

Two interchange stations:
khalid Bin Al Waleed and Union stations

Round Trip:
Design Red Line roundtrip time = 2 hours & 23 minutes (8,550 seconds)
Design Green Line roundtrip time = 1 hour & 23 minutes (4,995 seconds)
Red Line roundtrip time = 2  hours and 15 minutes  ( 8100 seconds )
Green line round trip time = 1 hour  ( 3600 seconds )

Tunnel:
Diameter 9.3 meters
Maximum depth: 29.56 m from ground level.

Speed:
Maximum operational speed:     90 Km/hr

Hours of operation:
Dubai Metro will operate as follows:
-  During weekdays (Saturday to Wednesday) from 6:00 am to 12:00 am (midnight);
-  Thursday the metro service will start at 6:00 am and continue up to 01:00 am (after midnight);
-  Friday the service will run from 01:00 pm (afternoon) up to 01:00 am (after midnight)

Park and ride facilities:
Red Line:  two multistory car parks at Rashidiya and Nakheel  Harbour & Tower stations
Green line: one multistory car park at Etisalat