According to the city's Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR), 47 scenarios will be set up during the trains' trial operation time, including fires, power cuts, flooding, and signal losses.

MAUR said there would be four and a half minutes between the trains.

Reports on the test-run activities will then be reported to the Ministry of Construction for approval for the commercial operation of the line, which is scheduled for December this year.

MAUR added that the line would run 200 trips between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m. during the first six months of commercial operation.

After that, the line will operate from 5 am to 11 pm, with 276 trips daily between Monday and Friday. On weekends and holidays, the number of trips will fall to 226.

Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railways 1 Company, the operator, said that passengers will be offered free travel during the first three months of commercial operation. Then, passengers will pay for tickets between VND12,000 and VND18,000 for their trips based on the distance between 5 and 20 km. One-day tickets cost VND40,000, three-day tickets cost VND90,000, and monthly tickets cost VND260,000.

The 19.70-kilometre-long metro line project, which started construction in 2012 at a total cost of VND43.70 trillion (USD1.77 billion), will run through District 1, Binh Thanh District, and Thu Duc City.

The trains are designed to run up to 110 kilometres per hour above ground and 80 kilometres underground.

The line was scheduled for operation in 2017 but has been delayed three times.