Smart mobility company has to deliver 36 trainsets, each comprising three cars
In another milestone for the DMRC, driverless train operations on 59-km Pink Line of the Delhi Metro were flagged off on Thursday
In another milestone for the DMRC, 'driverless train operations' on 57-km Pink Line of the Delhi Metro is all set to be inaugurated on November 25, officials said on Tuesday. Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot will inaugurate it via video-conferencing, slated to be held at 11:30 am, the DMRC said. India's first-ever driverless train operations on the Delhi Metro's Magenta Line was inaugurated on December 28 last year by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had said that his government, unlike its predecessors, had taken growing urbanisation as an opportunity and had asserted that metro train services would be extended to 25 cities by 2025 from the current 18. The DMRC officials then had said the Pink Line, spanning Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar, would also have driverless operations by mid-2021. However, the COVID-19 pandemic had majorly affected operations of the Delhi Metro. Delhi Metro had begun its commercial .
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh unveiled the country's first indigenously developed driverless metro car at the BEML manufacturing facility here
From pride and excitement to surprise and a little bit of apprehension, several young and old passengers went through a gamut of emotions
PM Modi inaugurated India's first-ever driverless train operations on Delhi Metro's Magenta Line along with the fully operational National Common Mobility Card service on the Airport Express Line
Modi will inaugurate India's first-ever driverless train operations on the Delhi Metro's Magenta Line
The country's first ever fully-automated driverless train service which will be on the Magenta Line of Delhi Metro
Fully automated trains can run much closer to each other while maintaining the same levels of safety
While certain routes on metro lines in Delhi and Hyderabad are already automated, plans are to introduce this technology even in outbound trains