Here s all you need to know about India s first-ever, fully automated, driverless train in Delhi Metro:
First Driverless Train Operations on Delhi Metro Magenta Line Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden - Top Features:
Benefits:
The fully automated trains will reduce human intervention in operations and offer more reliability and safety for the commuters. The system also brings more flexibility to train operations.
As a result, the number of trains in service can be regulated based on the demand dynamically without any dependence on the availability of the crew.
Since these trains operate on communication-based train control (signaling) system, they can be run with a headway as high as 90 seconds to offer more carrying capacity.
PM Modi lauds India s first Regional Rapid Transit System project ANI | Updated: Dec 28, 2020 20:07 IST
New Delhi [India], December 28 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lauded India s first Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) project, saying that it would reduce the travel time from Delhi to Meerut to under an hour. Several transport developments are being executed across the country. One of them is RRTS that will reduce the travel time between Delhi and Meerut, Prime Minister Modi said at the inauguration of Delhi Metro s first driverless train from Jasola Vihar-Shaheen Bagh Metro Station.
As per a statement, the RRTS, the first-of-its-kind project being implemented in the country, will provide regional connectivity to NCR with an operational speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
PM inaugurates India s first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro s Magenta Line
Modi said that with the driverless metro trains, India has become one of the few countries in the world, where such service is available.
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PM Modi inaugurates India s first driverless train on Delhi Metro s Magenta line. (Photo | Twitter/ANI) By PTI
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that metro train services will be extended to 25 cities with an over 1,700-km network by 2025 in the country as he flagged off India s first-ever driverless train operations on the Delhi Metro s Magenta Line.
‘Feels like previous rides as train is running quite smoothly’
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Fully automated driverless trains to be extended to the Pink Line by June 2021
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The first automated driverless metro train on the Magenta Line during the inaugural run from Jasola Vihar-Shaheen Bagh to Janakpuri West, in Delhi on Monday.
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Fully automated driverless trains to be extended to the Pink Line by June 2021
Driverless train operations on the Delhi Metro’s 37 km-long Magenta Line began on Monday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the first train, via videoconferencing, from the Jasola Vihar-Shaheen Bagh metro station.