NEW DELHI: Driverless train operations were launched on Delhi Metro\u2019s 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\u2019s fourth largest automated train network with 97km in the driverless system.
\nThe 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\u2019s 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\u2019s driverless network is marginally shorter than that of Kuala Lumpur\u2019s Rapid KL system (97.4km).
\nIn the next couple of years, after the completion of the 12.5km Maujpur-Majlis Park extension, currently underway as part of Delhi Metro\u2019s Phase IV expansion, Delhi Metro\u2019s automated network will be among the world\u2019s largest alongside Shanghai Metro (101.8km) and Singapore MRT (199km). Driverless operations will also be available on the upcoming Tughlakabad-Aerocity (Silver line).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Driverless train operations were launched on Delhi Metro\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s driverless network […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}