Delhi Metro’s automated network now world’s fourth largest

NEW DELHI: Driverless train operations were launched on Delhi Metro’s 59-km-long Pink Line (Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar) on Thursday by Union urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi transport minister Kailash Gahlot. According to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, it now has the world’s fourth largest automated train network with 97km in the driverless system.
The driverless train operation (DTO) facility was launched on the 37-km Magenta Line in 2020. Delhi Metro had then joined just 7% of the metro train systems across the world that run fully automated metro networks. With the addition of the Pink Line, DMRC’s driverless network is now ahead of other automated mass transit networks in the world like the Vancouver SkyTrain (79.6km) and Dubai Metro (89.6km). Delhi Metro’s driverless network is marginally shorter than that of Kuala Lumpur’s Rapid KL system (97.4km).
In the next couple of years, after the completion of the 12.5km Maujpur-Majlis Park extension, currently underway as part of Delhi Metro’s Phase IV expansion, Delhi Metro’s automated network will be among the world’s largest alongside Shanghai Metro (101.8km) and Singapore MRT (199km). Driverless operations will also be available on the upcoming Tughlakabad-Aerocity (Silver line).