Driverless train leaves no scope for human error
The six-coach driverless train will first run from Kalkaji Mandir to Botanical Garden, after which it will ply on two other corridors — 58 km Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar line and the over 38 km Janakpuri (W)-Botanical Garden line
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) had brought in the country's first driverless (Unattended Train Operation) train to be run on its Magenta Line last year.
The trial run was flagged off by former union urban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal at DMRC's Mukundpur depot on May 17, last year.
The six-coach driverless train will first run from Kalkaji Mandir to Botanical Garden, after which it will ply on two other corridors — 58 km Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar line and the over 38 km Janakpuri (W)-Botanical Garden line.
While driverless trains have been operating in cities such as London since 1960s, it will be first such operation in India. The DMRC has over 60 such UTO-mode equipped trains in the manufacturing process at the Bharat Earth Movers plant in Bengaluru.
Under the UTO mode, these new trains will be controlled and their movement regulated by the Operations Control Centres (OCC) and not by train operators.