An initial airstrip designed for 50 passenger planes will later be expanded into an almost 10,000-foot-long runway able to land the new A380 Airbus, the world's largest commercial aircraft with a maximum capacity of 853 passengers.
The much-lauded Mecca metro, with a maximum capacity of 72,000 passengers an hour, will go some way to alleviating the pressure on the roads, but with the Saudi authorities striving for bigger hajj numbers, more work will need to be done on managing the millions.
A Boeing 737 aircraft, for example, has a maximum capacity of 189 passengers, laid down by Boeing and government regulators.
At 115,000 tons, she carries a maximum capacity of 4,000 passengers and 1000 officers and crew.
Each vehicle contains 68 seats and has a maximum capacity of 236 passengers complete with four bike racks.
A wide-spaced runway would allow full "mixed-mode" operations, with take-offs and landings from both runways extracting a maximum capacity of 87 million passengers.
But with top speeds of around 100 miles an hour and a maximum capacity of several dozen passengers, dirigibles are expected by most aviation experts to remain niche vessels for ferrying tourists, advertising and occasional scientific payloads.
With a maximum capacity of only 14 passengers, the ship has vast areas for relaxing and sunbathing.
Each solar-powered train would have only four wheels, and a maximum capacity of seven or eight passengers, one of whom would be responsible for driving the train.
Each train has nine cars that seat four passengers, allowing a maximum capacity of 36 people per train and 1,600 riders an hour.
