After each Magenta Line and Pink Line are absolutely automated, Delhi Metro can have 97 km of driverless corridors out of its complete 395 km community within the Delhi-NCR area, making it one of many largest driverless metro techniques on the earth.
Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line, which connects Janakpuri West to Botanical Backyard on Friday, achieved unattended practice operations (UTO), marking a serious step within the Delhi Metro Rail Company’s (DMRC) shift in direction of driverless metro operation. Now, each practice on the Magenta Line willrun with out a driver, with practice operators utterly faraway from service.
After the Magenta Line, the DMRC is now planning to introduce UTO on the Pink Line, working from Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar.
“The unattended practice operations have been initiated by Delhi Metro in 2020. The transition to UTO was carried out in phased phases, all permitted by the Commissioner of Metro Rail Security,” TOI quoted a Delhi Metro Rail Company official as saying.
Course of for driverless metro began in Could 2024 on Magenta Line
The method of driverless metro operation for the Magenta Line began in Could 2024 with Stage I, which concerned eradicating cab partition doorways and steadily phasing out the driving console, although an operator remained contained in the cab.
Then in August 2024, in Stage II, the operator was allowed to maneuver wherever contained in the practice fairly than stay within the cab. In August once more, the Stage IIIA diminished the presence of operators to each alternate practice.
Lastly, in Could 2025, Stage IIIB was carried out the place the metro drivers have been eliminated totally, formally making the Magenta Line absolutely driverless.
Pink Line to change into absolutely driverless in 3-4 months
The DMRC stated for the Pink Line, automation began in March 2025 and reached Stage II by June 2025 and is anticipated to change into absolutely driverless inside the subsequent three to 4 months.
After each Magenta Line and Pink Line are absolutely automated, Delhi Metro can have 97 km of driverless corridors out of its complete 395 km community within the Delhi-NCR area, making it one of many largest driverless metro techniques on the earth.
Delhi Metro stated that the superior know-how will ship high-frequency, punctual, and secure companies whereas decreasing handbook intervention.
Other than these two traces, driverless operations are additionally being deliberate for all three precedence corridors underneath Section IV, RK Ashram Marg–Janakpuri West (Magenta Line extension), Aerocity–Tughlaqabad (new Golden Line), and Majlis Park–Maujpur (Pink Line extension). Together with this, three extra Section IV corridors have been permitted final 12 months, although development is but to start and these embody Lajpat Nagar–Saket G Block (Golden Line extension), Inderlok–Indraprastha (Inexperienced Line extension), and Rithala–Narela–Kundli (Purple Line extension).